[PATCH] tracing: branch tracer, fix vdso crash

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Wed Nov 12 2008 - 07:17:38 EST


Impact: fix bootup crash

the branch tracer missed arch/x86/vdso/vclock_gettime.c from
disabling tracing, which caused such bootup crashes:

[ 201.840097] init[1]: segfault at 7fffed3fe7c0 ip 00007fffed3fea2e sp 000077

also clean up the ugly ifdefs in arch/x86/kernel/vsyscall_64.c by
creating DISABLE_UNLIKELY_PROFILE facility for code to turn off
instrumentation on a per file basis.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/kernel/vsyscall_64.c | 9 ++-------
arch/x86/vdso/vclock_gettime.c | 3 +++
include/linux/compiler.h | 6 +++++-
3 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/vsyscall_64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/vsyscall_64.c
index 2f90202..ece0293 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/vsyscall_64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/vsyscall_64.c
@@ -17,13 +17,8 @@
* want per guest time just set the kernel.vsyscall64 sysctl to 0.
*/

-/* Protect userspace from profiling */
-#ifdef CONFIG_TRACE_UNLIKELY_PROFILE
-# undef likely
-# undef unlikely
-# define likely(x) likely_notrace(x)
-# define unlikely(x) unlikely_notrace(x)
-#endif
+/* Disable profiling for userspace code: */
+#define DISABLE_UNLIKELY_PROFILE

#include <linux/time.h>
#include <linux/init.h>
diff --git a/arch/x86/vdso/vclock_gettime.c b/arch/x86/vdso/vclock_gettime.c
index 1ef0f90..6e66763 100644
--- a/arch/x86/vdso/vclock_gettime.c
+++ b/arch/x86/vdso/vclock_gettime.c
@@ -9,6 +9,9 @@
* Also alternative() doesn't work.
*/

+/* Disable profiling for userspace code: */
+#define DISABLE_UNLIKELY_PROFILE
+
#include <linux/kernel.h>
#include <linux/posix-timers.h>
#include <linux/time.h>
diff --git a/include/linux/compiler.h b/include/linux/compiler.h
index 935e30c..63b7d90 100644
--- a/include/linux/compiler.h
+++ b/include/linux/compiler.h
@@ -59,7 +59,11 @@ extern void __chk_io_ptr(const volatile void __iomem *);
* specific implementations come from the above header files
*/

-#ifdef CONFIG_TRACE_UNLIKELY_PROFILE
+/*
+ * Note: DISABLE_UNLIKELY_PROFILE can be used by special lowlevel code
+ * to disable branch tracing on a per file basis.
+ */
+#if defined(CONFIG_TRACE_UNLIKELY_PROFILE) && !defined(DISABLE_UNLIKELY_PROFILE)
struct ftrace_likely_data {
const char *func;
const char *file;
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