Re: [PATCH] sched/clock: Make local_clock() notrace

[Steven Rostedt]

On Tue, 20 Feb 2024 20:19:32 -0500
Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 2024-02-20 20:20, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > From: "Steven Rostedt (Google)" <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > The "perf" clock in /sys/kernel/tracing/trace_clock enables local_clock(),
> > where on machines that have CONFIG_HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK set is a
> > normal function. This function can be traced.
> > 
> > I found that enabling the "perf" clock on some debug configs and running
> > function tracer can live lock the machine. That is, it goes so slow that
> > nothing moves forward.  
> 
> And I bet this is why the try_cmpxchg for reservation was
> looping endlessly. ;)
>

Yes. Debugging that was how I found it ;-) sort of.

I went back to another machine which triggered the cmpxchg issue as well,
but when removing that code and going back to the old code, it then locked
up completely. That was because the other config had more debugging enabled.
That debugging lead to finding this.

I'm now going back to see if I can trigger that again with this update.

-- Steve