[PATCH 4.4 13/34] MIPS: Fix kernel hang under FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER and PREEMPT_TRACER

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Mon Jun 14 2021 - 06:29:56 EST


From: Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@xxxxxxxxxxx>

[ Upstream commit 78cf0eb926cb1abeff2106bae67752e032fe5f3e ]

When update the latest mainline kernel with the following three configs,
the kernel hangs during startup:

(1) CONFIG_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER=y
(2) CONFIG_PREEMPT_TRACER=y
(3) CONFIG_FTRACE_STARTUP_TEST=y

When update the latest mainline kernel with the above two configs (1)
and (2), the kernel starts normally, but it still hangs when execute
the following command:

echo "function_graph" > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/current_tracer

Without CONFIG_PREEMPT_TRACER=y, the above two kinds of kernel hangs
disappeared, so it seems that CONFIG_PREEMPT_TRACER has some influences
with function_graph tracer at the first glance.

I use ejtag to find out the epc address is related with preempt_enable()
in the file arch/mips/lib/mips-atomic.c, because function tracing can
trace the preempt_{enable,disable} calls that are traced, replace them
with preempt_{enable,disable}_notrace to prevent function tracing from
going into an infinite loop, and then it can fix the kernel hang issue.

By the way, it seems that this commit is a complement and improvement of
commit f93a1a00f2bd ("MIPS: Fix crash that occurs when function tracing
is enabled").

Signed-off-by: Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/mips/lib/mips-atomic.c | 12 ++++++------
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/mips/lib/mips-atomic.c b/arch/mips/lib/mips-atomic.c
index 272af8ac2425..fd50aa7b178a 100644
--- a/arch/mips/lib/mips-atomic.c
+++ b/arch/mips/lib/mips-atomic.c
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@
*/
notrace void arch_local_irq_disable(void)
{
- preempt_disable();
+ preempt_disable_notrace();

__asm__ __volatile__(
" .set push \n"
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ notrace void arch_local_irq_disable(void)
: /* no inputs */
: "memory");

- preempt_enable();
+ preempt_enable_notrace();
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(arch_local_irq_disable);

@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ notrace unsigned long arch_local_irq_save(void)
{
unsigned long flags;

- preempt_disable();
+ preempt_disable_notrace();

__asm__ __volatile__(
" .set push \n"
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ notrace unsigned long arch_local_irq_save(void)
: /* no inputs */
: "memory");

- preempt_enable();
+ preempt_enable_notrace();

return flags;
}
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ notrace void arch_local_irq_restore(unsigned long flags)
{
unsigned long __tmp1;

- preempt_disable();
+ preempt_disable_notrace();

__asm__ __volatile__(
" .set push \n"
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ notrace void arch_local_irq_restore(unsigned long flags)
: "0" (flags)
: "memory");

- preempt_enable();
+ preempt_enable_notrace();
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(arch_local_irq_restore);

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