[PATCH 1/8] clocksource/drivers/arm_global_timer: Prevent ftrace recursion

From: Daniel Lezcano
Date: Wed Oct 28 2015 - 09:11:56 EST


From: Jisheng Zhang <jszhang@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Currently arm_global_timer can be used as a scheduler clock. We properly
marked gt_sched_clock_read() as notrace but we then call another function
gt_counter_read() that _wasn't_ notrace.

Having a traceable function in the sched_clock() path leads to a recursion
within ftrace and a kernel crash.

Fix this by adding an extra notrace function to keep other users of
gt_counter_read() traceable.

Signed-off-by: Jisheng Zhang <jszhang@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/clocksource/arm_global_timer.c | 9 +++++++--
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/clocksource/arm_global_timer.c b/drivers/clocksource/arm_global_timer.c
index 29ea50a..a2cb6fa 100644
--- a/drivers/clocksource/arm_global_timer.c
+++ b/drivers/clocksource/arm_global_timer.c
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ static struct clock_event_device __percpu *gt_evt;
* different to the 32-bit upper value read previously, go back to step 2.
* Otherwise the 64-bit timer counter value is correct.
*/
-static u64 gt_counter_read(void)
+static u64 notrace _gt_counter_read(void)
{
u64 counter;
u32 lower;
@@ -79,6 +79,11 @@ static u64 gt_counter_read(void)
return counter;
}

+static u64 gt_counter_read(void)
+{
+ return _gt_counter_read();
+}
+
/**
* To ensure that updates to comparator value register do not set the
* Interrupt Status Register proceed as follows:
@@ -201,7 +206,7 @@ static struct clocksource gt_clocksource = {
#ifdef CONFIG_CLKSRC_ARM_GLOBAL_TIMER_SCHED_CLOCK
static u64 notrace gt_sched_clock_read(void)
{
- return gt_counter_read();
+ return _gt_counter_read();
}
#endif

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1.9.1

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