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[v2] trace: tracing_event_filter: fast path when no subsystem filters

Message ID 20231002144149.1325-1-Nicholas.Lowell@gmail.com (mailing list archive)
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Series [v2] trace: tracing_event_filter: fast path when no subsystem filters | expand

Commit Message

Nick Lowell Oct. 2, 2023, 2:41 p.m. UTC
From: Nicholas Lowell <nlowell@lexmark.com>

If there are no filters in the event subsystem, then there's no
reason to continue and hit the potentially time consuming
tracepoint_synchronize_unregister function.  This should give
a speed up for initial disabling/configuring

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Lowell <nlowell@lexmark.com>
---

Notes:
    v2: switch from needless counting to boolean
        WARN_ON_ONCE if no preds but filter exists

 kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

Comments

Steven Rostedt Oct. 4, 2023, 2:30 a.m. UTC | #1
On Mon,  2 Oct 2023 10:41:48 -0400
Nicholas Lowell <nicholas.lowell@gmail.com> wrote:

> @@ -2411,7 +2418,12 @@ int apply_subsystem_event_filter(struct trace_subsystem_dir *dir,
>  	}
>  
>  	if (!strcmp(strstrip(filter_string), "0")) {
> -		filter_free_subsystem_preds(dir, tr);
> +		/* If nothing was freed, we do not need to sync */
> +		if (!filter_free_subsystem_preds(dir, tr)) {
> +			if(!(WARN_ON_ONCE(system->filter)))
> +				goto out_unlock;
> +		}
> +
>  		remove_filter_string(system->filter);
>  		filter = system->filter;
>  		system->filter = NULL;
> -- 

This is why I asked for the warning:

trace-cmd record -o /tmp/trace.dat -e sched -f "(common_pid == $$) || ((common_pid > 10) && common_pid < 100) || (common_pid >= 1000 && common_pid <= 1050) || (common_pid > 10000 && common_pid < 20000)" sleep 5


Causes:

------------[ cut here ]------------
 WARNING: CPU: 5 PID: 944 at kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c:2423 apply_subsystem_event_filter+0x18c/0x5e0
 Modules linked in:
 CPU: 5 PID: 944 Comm: trace-cmd Not tainted 6.6.0-rc4-test-00009-gff7cd7446fe5 #102
 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.16.2-debian-1.16.2-1 04/01/2014
 RIP: 0010:apply_subsystem_event_filter+0x18c/0x5e0
 Code: 44 24 08 00 00 00 00 48 8b 6d 00 4c 39 f5 75 bc 48 8b 44 24 18 4c 8b 60 18 4c 89 e5 45 84 ff 75 14 48 85 ed 0f 84 37 ff ff ff <0f> 0b eb 10 e8 4b be fd ff eb b0 4d 85 e4 0f 84 a3 02 00 00 48 8b
 RSP: 0018:ffff9b4941607db8 EFLAGS: 00010286
 RAX: ffff8b2780a77280 RBX: ffff8b2780a77400 RCX: 0000000000000000
 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffff8b2781c11c38 RDI: ffff8b2781c11c38
 RBP: ffff8b28df449030 R08: ffff8b2781c11c38 R09: 0000000000000000
 R10: ffff8b2781c11c38 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff8b28df449030
 R13: ffffffffaaf64de0 R14: ffffffffaaf66bb8 R15: 0000000000000000
 FS:  00007fd221def3c0(0000) GS:ffff8b28f7d40000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
 CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
 CR2: 000056117c93e160 CR3: 000000010173a003 CR4: 0000000000170ee0
 Call Trace:
  <TASK>
  ? apply_subsystem_event_filter+0x18c/0x5e0
  ? __warn+0x81/0x130
  ? apply_subsystem_event_filter+0x18c/0x5e0
  ? report_bug+0x191/0x1c0
  ? handle_bug+0x3c/0x80
  ? exc_invalid_op+0x17/0x70
  ? asm_exc_invalid_op+0x1a/0x20
  ? apply_subsystem_event_filter+0x18c/0x5e0
  ? apply_subsystem_event_filter+0x5b/0x5e0
  ? __check_object_size+0x25b/0x2c0
  subsystem_filter_write+0x41/0x70
  vfs_write+0xf2/0x440
  ? kmem_cache_free+0x22/0x350
  ksys_write+0x6f/0xf0
  do_syscall_64+0x3f/0xc0
  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0xd8
 RIP: 0033:0x7fd221ee7ae0

-- Steve
Nick Lowell Oct. 4, 2023, 2:39 p.m. UTC | #2
On Tue, Oct 3, 2023 at 10:29 PM Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote:
>
> On Mon,  2 Oct 2023 10:41:48 -0400
> Nicholas Lowell <nicholas.lowell@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > @@ -2411,7 +2418,12 @@ int apply_subsystem_event_filter(struct trace_subsystem_dir *dir,
> >       }
> >
> >       if (!strcmp(strstrip(filter_string), "0")) {
> > -             filter_free_subsystem_preds(dir, tr);
> > +             /* If nothing was freed, we do not need to sync */
> > +             if (!filter_free_subsystem_preds(dir, tr)) {
> > +                     if(!(WARN_ON_ONCE(system->filter)))
> > +                             goto out_unlock;
> > +             }
> > +
> >               remove_filter_string(system->filter);
> >               filter = system->filter;
> >               system->filter = NULL;
> > --
>
> This is why I asked for the warning:
>
> trace-cmd record -o /tmp/trace.dat -e sched -f "(common_pid == $$) || ((common_pid > 10) && common_pid < 100) || (common_pid >= 1000 && common_pid <= 1050) || (common_pid > 10000 && common_pid < 20000)" sleep 5
>
>
> Causes:
>
> ------------[ cut here ]------------
>  WARNING: CPU: 5 PID: 944 at kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c:2423 apply_subsystem_event_filter+0x18c/0x5e0
>  Modules linked in:
>  CPU: 5 PID: 944 Comm: trace-cmd Not tainted 6.6.0-rc4-test-00009-gff7cd7446fe5 #102
>  Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.16.2-debian-1.16.2-1 04/01/2014
>  RIP: 0010:apply_subsystem_event_filter+0x18c/0x5e0
>  Code: 44 24 08 00 00 00 00 48 8b 6d 00 4c 39 f5 75 bc 48 8b 44 24 18 4c 8b 60 18 4c 89 e5 45 84 ff 75 14 48 85 ed 0f 84 37 ff ff ff <0f> 0b eb 10 e8 4b be fd ff eb b0 4d 85 e4 0f 84 a3 02 00 00 48 8b
>  RSP: 0018:ffff9b4941607db8 EFLAGS: 00010286
>  RAX: ffff8b2780a77280 RBX: ffff8b2780a77400 RCX: 0000000000000000
>  RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffff8b2781c11c38 RDI: ffff8b2781c11c38
>  RBP: ffff8b28df449030 R08: ffff8b2781c11c38 R09: 0000000000000000
>  R10: ffff8b2781c11c38 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff8b28df449030
>  R13: ffffffffaaf64de0 R14: ffffffffaaf66bb8 R15: 0000000000000000
>  FS:  00007fd221def3c0(0000) GS:ffff8b28f7d40000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
>  CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
>  CR2: 000056117c93e160 CR3: 000000010173a003 CR4: 0000000000170ee0
>  Call Trace:
>   <TASK>
>   ? apply_subsystem_event_filter+0x18c/0x5e0
>   ? __warn+0x81/0x130
>   ? apply_subsystem_event_filter+0x18c/0x5e0
>   ? report_bug+0x191/0x1c0
>   ? handle_bug+0x3c/0x80
>   ? exc_invalid_op+0x17/0x70
>   ? asm_exc_invalid_op+0x1a/0x20
>   ? apply_subsystem_event_filter+0x18c/0x5e0
>   ? apply_subsystem_event_filter+0x5b/0x5e0
>   ? __check_object_size+0x25b/0x2c0
>   subsystem_filter_write+0x41/0x70
>   vfs_write+0xf2/0x440
>   ? kmem_cache_free+0x22/0x350
>   ksys_write+0x6f/0xf0
>   do_syscall_64+0x3f/0xc0
>   entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0xd8
>  RIP: 0033:0x7fd221ee7ae0
>
> -- Steve

Is this just informative indicating that there are issues with how
filters are being used or are you saying there is something else I
need to do before this patch is approved?
What version of trace-cmd is that using?
Steven Rostedt Oct. 4, 2023, 2:53 p.m. UTC | #3
On Wed, 4 Oct 2023 10:39:33 -0400
Nick Lowell <nicholas.lowell@gmail.com> wrote:

> > ------------[ cut here ]------------
> >  WARNING: CPU: 5 PID: 944 at kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c:2423 apply_subsystem_event_filter+0x18c/0x5e0
> >  Modules linked in:
> >  CPU: 5 PID: 944 Comm: trace-cmd Not tainted 6.6.0-rc4-test-00009-gff7cd7446fe5 #102
> >  Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.16.2-debian-1.16.2-1 04/01/2014
> >  RIP: 0010:apply_subsystem_event_filter+0x18c/0x5e0
> >  Code: 44 24 08 00 00 00 00 48 8b 6d 00 4c 39 f5 75 bc 48 8b 44 24 18 4c 8b 60 18 4c 89 e5 45 84 ff 75 14 48 85 ed 0f 84 37 ff ff ff <0f> 0b eb 10 e8 4b be fd ff eb b0 4d 85 e4 0f 84 a3 02 00 00 48 8b
> >  RSP: 0018:ffff9b4941607db8 EFLAGS: 00010286
> >  RAX: ffff8b2780a77280 RBX: ffff8b2780a77400 RCX: 0000000000000000
> >  RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffff8b2781c11c38 RDI: ffff8b2781c11c38
> >  RBP: ffff8b28df449030 R08: ffff8b2781c11c38 R09: 0000000000000000
> >  R10: ffff8b2781c11c38 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff8b28df449030
> >  R13: ffffffffaaf64de0 R14: ffffffffaaf66bb8 R15: 0000000000000000
> >  FS:  00007fd221def3c0(0000) GS:ffff8b28f7d40000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
> >  CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
> >  CR2: 000056117c93e160 CR3: 000000010173a003 CR4: 0000000000170ee0
> >  Call Trace:
> >   <TASK>
> >   ? apply_subsystem_event_filter+0x18c/0x5e0
> >   ? __warn+0x81/0x130
> >   ? apply_subsystem_event_filter+0x18c/0x5e0
> >   ? report_bug+0x191/0x1c0
> >   ? handle_bug+0x3c/0x80
> >   ? exc_invalid_op+0x17/0x70
> >   ? asm_exc_invalid_op+0x1a/0x20
> >   ? apply_subsystem_event_filter+0x18c/0x5e0
> >   ? apply_subsystem_event_filter+0x5b/0x5e0
> >   ? __check_object_size+0x25b/0x2c0
> >   subsystem_filter_write+0x41/0x70
> >   vfs_write+0xf2/0x440
> >   ? kmem_cache_free+0x22/0x350
> >   ksys_write+0x6f/0xf0
> >   do_syscall_64+0x3f/0xc0
> >   entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0xd8
> >  RIP: 0033:0x7fd221ee7ae0
> >
> > -- Steve  
> 
> Is this just informative indicating that there are issues with how
> filters are being used or are you saying there is something else I
> need to do before this patch is approved?
> What version of trace-cmd is that using?

Not sure if it matters, but the above was with trace-cmd v3.2.

So, I guess we need to look a bit deeper at the change.

> @@ -2411,7 +2418,12 @@ int apply_subsystem_event_filter(struct trace_subsystem_dir *dir,
>  	}
>  
>  	if (!strcmp(strstrip(filter_string), "0")) {
> -		filter_free_subsystem_preds(dir, tr);
> +		/* If nothing was freed, we do not need to sync */
> +		if (!filter_free_subsystem_preds(dir, tr)) {
> +			if(!(WARN_ON_ONCE(system->filter)))
> +				goto out_unlock;

When do we want to skip the below?

The original version just did the "goto out_unlock" before the
"system->filter" check, and that would have caused a memory leak, or just
left the "system->filter" around when unneeded.

In other words, the patch is incorrect in general then.

> +		}
> +
>  		remove_filter_string(system->filter);
>  		filter = system->filter;
>  		system->filter = NULL;

I believe, what you really want here is simply:

	bool sync;

	[..]

	if (!strcmp(strstrip(filter_string), "0")) {
+		sync = filter_free_subsystem_preds(dir, tr);
		remove_filter_string(system->filter);
		filter = system->filter;
		system->filter = NULL;
-		/* Ensure all filters are no longer used */
-		tracepoint_synchronize_unregister();
+		if (sync) {
+			/* Ensure all filters are no longer used */
+			tracepoint_synchronize_unregister();
+		}
		filter_free_subsystem_filters(dir, tr);

Maybe even pass in "sync" to the filter_free_subsystem_filters() to make
sure there were nothing to be freed, and do the WARN_ON_ONCE() then.

		__free_filter(filter);
		goto out_unlock;
	}

-- Steve
Nick Lowell Oct. 12, 2023, 8:37 p.m. UTC | #4
On Wed, Oct 4, 2023 at 10:52 AM Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 4 Oct 2023 10:39:33 -0400
> Nick Lowell <nicholas.lowell@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > ------------[ cut here ]------------
> > >  WARNING: CPU: 5 PID: 944 at kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c:2423 apply_subsystem_event_filter+0x18c/0x5e0
> > >  Modules linked in:
> > >  CPU: 5 PID: 944 Comm: trace-cmd Not tainted 6.6.0-rc4-test-00009-gff7cd7446fe5 #102
> > >  Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.16.2-debian-1.16.2-1 04/01/2014
> > >  RIP: 0010:apply_subsystem_event_filter+0x18c/0x5e0
> > >  Code: 44 24 08 00 00 00 00 48 8b 6d 00 4c 39 f5 75 bc 48 8b 44 24 18 4c 8b 60 18 4c 89 e5 45 84 ff 75 14 48 85 ed 0f 84 37 ff ff ff <0f> 0b eb 10 e8 4b be fd ff eb b0 4d 85 e4 0f 84 a3 02 00 00 48 8b
> > >  RSP: 0018:ffff9b4941607db8 EFLAGS: 00010286
> > >  RAX: ffff8b2780a77280 RBX: ffff8b2780a77400 RCX: 0000000000000000
> > >  RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffff8b2781c11c38 RDI: ffff8b2781c11c38
> > >  RBP: ffff8b28df449030 R08: ffff8b2781c11c38 R09: 0000000000000000
> > >  R10: ffff8b2781c11c38 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff8b28df449030
> > >  R13: ffffffffaaf64de0 R14: ffffffffaaf66bb8 R15: 0000000000000000
> > >  FS:  00007fd221def3c0(0000) GS:ffff8b28f7d40000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
> > >  CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
> > >  CR2: 000056117c93e160 CR3: 000000010173a003 CR4: 0000000000170ee0
> > >  Call Trace:
> > >   <TASK>
> > >   ? apply_subsystem_event_filter+0x18c/0x5e0
> > >   ? __warn+0x81/0x130
> > >   ? apply_subsystem_event_filter+0x18c/0x5e0
> > >   ? report_bug+0x191/0x1c0
> > >   ? handle_bug+0x3c/0x80
> > >   ? exc_invalid_op+0x17/0x70
> > >   ? asm_exc_invalid_op+0x1a/0x20
> > >   ? apply_subsystem_event_filter+0x18c/0x5e0
> > >   ? apply_subsystem_event_filter+0x5b/0x5e0
> > >   ? __check_object_size+0x25b/0x2c0
> > >   subsystem_filter_write+0x41/0x70
> > >   vfs_write+0xf2/0x440
> > >   ? kmem_cache_free+0x22/0x350
> > >   ksys_write+0x6f/0xf0
> > >   do_syscall_64+0x3f/0xc0
> > >   entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0xd8
> > >  RIP: 0033:0x7fd221ee7ae0
> > >
> > > -- Steve
> >
> > Is this just informative indicating that there are issues with how
> > filters are being used or are you saying there is something else I
> > need to do before this patch is approved?
> > What version of trace-cmd is that using?
>
> Not sure if it matters, but the above was with trace-cmd v3.2.
>
> So, I guess we need to look a bit deeper at the change.
>
> > @@ -2411,7 +2418,12 @@ int apply_subsystem_event_filter(struct trace_subsystem_dir *dir,
> >       }
> >
> >       if (!strcmp(strstrip(filter_string), "0")) {
> > -             filter_free_subsystem_preds(dir, tr);
> > +             /* If nothing was freed, we do not need to sync */
> > +             if (!filter_free_subsystem_preds(dir, tr)) {
> > +                     if(!(WARN_ON_ONCE(system->filter)))
> > +                             goto out_unlock;
>
> When do we want to skip the below?
>
> The original version just did the "goto out_unlock" before the
> "system->filter" check, and that would have caused a memory leak, or just
> left the "system->filter" around when unneeded.
>
> In other words, the patch is incorrect in general then.
>
> > +             }
> > +
> >               remove_filter_string(system->filter);
> >               filter = system->filter;
> >               system->filter = NULL;
>
> I believe, what you really want here is simply:
>
>         bool sync;
>
>         [..]
>
>         if (!strcmp(strstrip(filter_string), "0")) {
> +               sync = filter_free_subsystem_preds(dir, tr);
>                 remove_filter_string(system->filter);
>                 filter = system->filter;
>                 system->filter = NULL;
> -               /* Ensure all filters are no longer used */
> -               tracepoint_synchronize_unregister();
> +               if (sync) {
> +                       /* Ensure all filters are no longer used */
> +                       tracepoint_synchronize_unregister();
> +               }
>                 filter_free_subsystem_filters(dir, tr);
>

I really appreciate the continued feedback.  I was able to reproduce.
I think I'm understanding better but still need some help.
I am actually wondering if remove_filter_string(system->filter) should
also return bool as an OR'd input for sync.
Should it be something like this?

        if (!strcmp(strstrip(filter_string), "0")) {
-               filter_free_subsystem_preds(dir, tr);
-               remove_filter_string(system->filter);
+              bool sync;
+
+              sync = filter_free_subsystem_preds(dir, tr);
+              sync = sync || remove_filter_string(system->filter);
                filter = system->filter;
                system->filter = NULL;
-               /* Ensure all filters are no longer used */
-               tracepoint_synchronize_unregister();
+              /* If nothing was freed, we do not need to sync */
+              if(sync) {
+                      /* Ensure all filters are no longer used */
+                      tracepoint_synchronize_unregister();
+              }
                filter_free_subsystem_filters(dir, tr);
                __free_filter(filter);
                goto out_unlock;

> Maybe even pass in "sync" to the filter_free_subsystem_filters() to make
> sure there were nothing to be freed, and do the WARN_ON_ONCE() then.
>
>                 __free_filter(filter);
>                 goto out_unlock;
>         }
>
> -- Steve

I'm not sure if I see the reasoning for the WARN_ON_ONCE() in
filter_free_subsystem_filters()
because it ends up checking the same if(!filter) just like
filter_free_subsystem_preds() did earlier. It doesn't
seem to do anything with system->filter.  I actually wonder if !sync,
could filter_free_subsystem_filters()
be skipped altogether.  Help me if I'm missing something.

Thanks again,
Nick
Steven Rostedt Nov. 22, 2023, 9:20 p.m. UTC | #5
On Thu, 12 Oct 2023 16:37:35 -0400
Nick Lowell <nicholas.lowell@gmail.com> wrote:

Sorry, I was traveling when this was sent, and I missed it.


> I really appreciate the continued feedback.  I was able to reproduce.
> I think I'm understanding better but still need some help.
> I am actually wondering if remove_filter_string(system->filter) should

You mean to return true if filter->filter_string was not NULL?

> also return bool as an OR'd input for sync.
> Should it be something like this?
> 
>         if (!strcmp(strstrip(filter_string), "0")) {
> -               filter_free_subsystem_preds(dir, tr);
> -               remove_filter_string(system->filter);
> +              bool sync;

I would just make this an int;

> +
> +              sync = filter_free_subsystem_preds(dir, tr);
> +              sync = sync || remove_filter_string(system->filter);

And then just have:

		sync |= remove_filter_string(system->filter);

>                 filter = system->filter;
>                 system->filter = NULL;
> -               /* Ensure all filters are no longer used */
> -               tracepoint_synchronize_unregister();
> +              /* If nothing was freed, we do not need to sync */
> +              if(sync) {
> +                      /* Ensure all filters are no longer used */
> +                      tracepoint_synchronize_unregister();
> +              }
>                 filter_free_subsystem_filters(dir, tr);
>                 __free_filter(filter);
>                 goto out_unlock;
> 
> > Maybe even pass in "sync" to the filter_free_subsystem_filters() to make
> > sure there were nothing to be freed, and do the WARN_ON_ONCE() then.
> >
> >                 __free_filter(filter);
> >                 goto out_unlock;
> >         }
> >
> > -- Steve  
> 
> I'm not sure if I see the reasoning for the WARN_ON_ONCE() in
> filter_free_subsystem_filters()
> because it ends up checking the same if(!filter) just like
> filter_free_subsystem_preds() did earlier. It doesn't
> seem to do anything with system->filter.  I actually wonder if !sync,
> could filter_free_subsystem_filters()
> be skipped altogether.  Help me if I'm missing something.

The point is, code always changes. It's a bug if one of the filters had
content in filter_free_subsystem_filters() and sync is 0, hence the
WARN_ON_ONCE() if it does.

WARN_ON*()s are added to make sure the code is acting the way it is expected
to act. Yes, it should never trigger, but if it does, we know there's a bug
somewhere.

-- Steve
diff mbox series

Patch

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c b/kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c
index 33264e510d16..baa108f88032 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c
@@ -1317,22 +1317,29 @@  void free_event_filter(struct event_filter *filter)
 	__free_filter(filter);
 }
 
-static inline void __remove_filter(struct trace_event_file *file)
+static inline bool __remove_filter(struct trace_event_file *file)
 {
 	filter_disable(file);
+	if (!file->filter)
+		return false;
+
 	remove_filter_string(file->filter);
+	return true;
 }
 
-static void filter_free_subsystem_preds(struct trace_subsystem_dir *dir,
+static bool filter_free_subsystem_preds(struct trace_subsystem_dir *dir,
 					struct trace_array *tr)
 {
 	struct trace_event_file *file;
+	bool do_sync = false;
 
 	list_for_each_entry(file, &tr->events, list) {
 		if (file->system != dir)
 			continue;
-		__remove_filter(file);
+		if (__remove_filter(file))
+			do_sync = true;
 	}
+	return do_sync;
 }
 
 static inline void __free_subsystem_filter(struct trace_event_file *file)
@@ -2411,7 +2418,12 @@  int apply_subsystem_event_filter(struct trace_subsystem_dir *dir,
 	}
 
 	if (!strcmp(strstrip(filter_string), "0")) {
-		filter_free_subsystem_preds(dir, tr);
+		/* If nothing was freed, we do not need to sync */
+		if (!filter_free_subsystem_preds(dir, tr)) {
+			if(!(WARN_ON_ONCE(system->filter)))
+				goto out_unlock;
+		}
+
 		remove_filter_string(system->filter);
 		filter = system->filter;
 		system->filter = NULL;