Re: [PATCH 2/2] tracing: use nowakeup version of commit forfunction event trace tests

From: Frederic Weisbecker
Date: Mon Apr 20 2009 - 18:41:46 EST


On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 06:22:59PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> From: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> The startup tests for the event tracer also runs with the function
> tracer enabled. The "wakeup" version of the trace commit was used
> which can grab spinlocks. If a task was preempted by an NMI
> that called a function being traced, it could deadlock due to the
> function tracer trying to grab the same lock.
>
> Thanks to Frederic Weisbecker for pointing out where the bug was.
>
> Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
> Reported-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---


Aah, I was about to push my version, which was the same but with
a more weird changelog :-)

Frederic.



> kernel/trace/trace_events.c | 2 +-
> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events.c b/kernel/trace/trace_events.c
> index 98daf5d..672b195 100644
> --- a/kernel/trace/trace_events.c
> +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events.c
> @@ -1164,7 +1164,7 @@ function_test_events_call(unsigned long ip, unsigned long parent_ip)
> entry->ip = ip;
> entry->parent_ip = parent_ip;
>
> - trace_current_buffer_unlock_commit(event, flags, pc);
> + trace_nowake_buffer_unlock_commit(event, flags, pc);
>
> out:
> atomic_dec(&per_cpu(test_event_disable, cpu));
> --
> 1.6.2.1
>
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