Re: [PATCH] tracing/function-graph-tracer: strip ending newlines on comments

From: Frédéric Weisbecker
Date: Tue Dec 23 2008 - 07:31:25 EST


2008/12/23 Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>:
>
> btw., ftrace_printk() is not NMI safe:
> x
> BUG: spinlock recursion on CPU#1, loop_yield/3360
> lock: ffffffff807a0c60, .magic: dead4ead, .owner: loop_yield/3360, .owner_cpu: 1
> Pid: 3360, comm: loop_yield Not tainted 2.6.28-rc9-tip #48
> Call Trace:
> <NMI> [<ffffffff8038ba23>] spin_bug+0xa2/0xaa
> [<ffffffff8038baf8>] _raw_spin_lock+0x42/0x134
> [<ffffffff8059f0fc>] _spin_lock_irqsave+0x44/0x50
> [<ffffffff802890c4>] ? trace_vprintk+0x8e/0x164
> [<ffffffff8059eeea>] ? _spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x3d/0x4c
> [<ffffffff802890c4>] trace_vprintk+0x8e/0x164
> [<ffffffff802182a6>] ? __hw_perf_counter_set_period+0x1ed/0x280
> [<ffffffff802892ef>] __ftrace_printk+0x55/0x57
> [<ffffffff802182cc>] __hw_perf_counter_set_period+0x213/0x280
> [<ffffffff80218d8c>] __smp_perf_counter_interrupt+0x21c/0x3c2
> [<ffffffff805a043a>] perf_counter_nmi_handler+0x35/0x3f
> [<ffffffff805a1cc9>] notifier_call_chain+0x5e/0x92
> [<ffffffff805a1d5b>] __atomic_notifier_call_chain+0x5e/0x87
> [<ffffffff805a1cfd>] ? __atomic_notifier_call_chain+0x0/0x87
> [<ffffffff805a1d93>] atomic_notifier_call_chain+0xf/0x11
> [<ffffffff80258e9d>] notify_die+0x2e/0x30
> [<ffffffff8059fdd2>] do_nmi+0x9f/0x25f
> [<ffffffff8059f7fa>] nmi+0x1a/0x2c
> [<ffffffff80287104>] ? __rb_reserve_next+0x4b/0x3c8
> [<ffffffff802871dd>] ? __rb_reserve_next+0x124/0x3c8
> <<EOE>> <IRQ> [<ffffffff80287628>] rb_reserve_next_event+0x1a7/0x307
> [<ffffffff8028796c>] ring_buffer_lock_reserve+0x8b/0xd3
> [<ffffffff8028910b>] trace_vprintk+0xd5/0x164
> [<ffffffff80260fb3>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0xfd/0x138
> [<ffffffff8028dd2b>] ? __perf_counter_remove_from_context+0x60/0x179
> [<ffffffff802892ef>] __ftrace_printk+0x55/0x57
> [<ffffffff802180a6>] ? pmc_generic_disable+0x266/0x279
> [<ffffffff8028dd59>] __perf_counter_remove_from_context+0x8e/0x179
> [<ffffffff8026835d>] generic_smp_call_function_single_interrupt+0x87/0xc0
> [<ffffffff8021fd8d>] smp_call_function_single_interrupt+0x24/0x34
> [<ffffffff8020d053>] call_function_single_interrupt+0x13/0x20
> <EOI>
>
> caused by:
>
> spin_lock_irqsave(&trace_buf_lock, irq_flags);
>
> which locking is necessiated by:
>
> static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(trace_buf_lock);
> static char trace_buf[TRACE_BUF_SIZE];
>
> i think this should be changed to a PER_CPU data structure - and if an NMI
> context mixes up the buffer, that's not a big issue. (i'd not complicate
> it by using a NMI specific buffer)
>
> Ingo
>

Ok. That would be great if the nmi context detection implemented
inside arch/x86/kernel/ftrace.c could be standardized,
we could also make easy the handling of such situations.

For now I will fix it with a per_cpu buffer.

Thanks.
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