[PATCH v9 35/37] tracing: Increase trace_recursive_lock() limit for synthetic events

From: Tom Zanussi
Date: Mon Jan 15 2018 - 21:56:15 EST


Synthetic event generation needs to happen while the current event is
still in progress, so add 1 to the trace_recursive_lock() recursion
limit to account for that.

Because we also want to allow for the possibility of a synthetic event
being generated from another synthetic event, add an additional
increment for that as well.

Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c | 10 +++++-----
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
index 48c0619..ca2ffc9 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
@@ -2585,16 +2585,16 @@ static void rb_commit(struct ring_buffer_per_cpu *cpu_buffer,
* IRQ context
* NMI context
*
- * If for some reason the ring buffer starts to recurse, we
- * only allow that to happen at most 4 times (one for each
- * context). If it happens 5 times, then we consider this a
- * recusive loop and do not let it go further.
+ * If for some reason the ring buffer starts to recurse, we only allow
+ * that to happen at most 6 times (one for each context, plus possibly
+ * two levels of synthetic event generation). If it happens 7 times,
+ * then we consider this a recusive loop and do not let it go further.
*/

static __always_inline int
trace_recursive_lock(struct ring_buffer_per_cpu *cpu_buffer)
{
- if (cpu_buffer->current_context >= 4)
+ if (cpu_buffer->current_context >= 6)
return 1;

cpu_buffer->current_context++;
--
1.9.3