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| author | Steven Rostedt (VMware) | 2021-01-29 10:13:53 -0500 |
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| committer | Steven Rostedt (VMware) | 2021-01-29 15:07:32 -0500 |
| commit | 7e0a9220467dbcfdc5bc62825724f3e52e50ab31 (patch) | |
| tree | ff6cfcbcbbad6709d663355fbed19ab4a2269d02 /kernel | |
| parent | 6ee1d745b7c9fd573fba142a2efdad76a9f1cb04 (diff) | |
fgraph: Initialize tracing_graph_pause at task creation
On some archs, the idle task can call into cpu_suspend(). The cpu_suspend()
will disable or pause function graph tracing, as there's some paths in
bringing down the CPU that can have issues with its return address being
modified. The task_struct structure has a "tracing_graph_pause" atomic
counter, that when set to something other than zero, the function graph
tracer will not modify the return address.
The problem is that the tracing_graph_pause counter is initialized when the
function graph tracer is enabled. This can corrupt the counter for the idle
task if it is suspended in these architectures.
CPU 1 CPU 2
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do_idle()
cpu_suspend()
pause_graph_tracing()
task_struct->tracing_graph_pause++ (0 -> 1)
start_graph_tracing()
for_each_online_cpu(cpu) {
ftrace_graph_init_idle_task(cpu)
task-struct->tracing_graph_pause = 0 (1 -> 0)
unpause_graph_tracing()
task_struct->tracing_graph_pause-- (0 -> -1)
The above should have gone from 1 to zero, and enabled function graph
tracing again. But instead, it is set to -1, which keeps it disabled.
There's no reason that the field tracing_graph_pause on the task_struct can
not be initialized at boot up.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 380c4b1411ccd ("tracing/function-graph-tracer: append the tracing_graph_flag")
Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=211339
Reported-by: pierre.gondois@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/trace/fgraph.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/trace/fgraph.c b/kernel/trace/fgraph.c index 73edb9e4f354..29a6ebeebc9e 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/fgraph.c +++ b/kernel/trace/fgraph.c @@ -394,7 +394,6 @@ static int alloc_retstack_tasklist(struct ftrace_ret_stack **ret_stack_list) } if (t->ret_stack == NULL) { - atomic_set(&t->tracing_graph_pause, 0); atomic_set(&t->trace_overrun, 0); t->curr_ret_stack = -1; t->curr_ret_depth = -1; @@ -489,7 +488,6 @@ static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct ftrace_ret_stack *, idle_ret_stack); static void graph_init_task(struct task_struct *t, struct ftrace_ret_stack *ret_stack) { - atomic_set(&t->tracing_graph_pause, 0); atomic_set(&t->trace_overrun, 0); t->ftrace_timestamp = 0; /* make curr_ret_stack visible before we add the ret_stack */ |