[tip:x86/urgent] x86: Use preempt_disable_notrace() in cycles_2_ns()

From: tip-bot for Steven Rostedt
Date: Mon Feb 10 2014 - 08:29:36 EST


Commit-ID: 569d6557ab957d6ae7e97a46ae669174be4189e6
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/569d6557ab957d6ae7e97a46ae669174be4189e6
Author: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 14:13:15 -0500
Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Sun, 9 Feb 2014 13:09:08 +0100

x86: Use preempt_disable_notrace() in cycles_2_ns()

When debug preempt is enabled, preempt_disable() can be traced by
function and function graph tracing.

There's a place in the function graph tracer that calls trace_clock()
which eventually calls cycles_2_ns() outside of the recursion
protection. When cycles_2_ns() calls preempt_disable() it gets traced
and the graph tracer will go into a recursive loop causing a crash or
worse, a triple fault.

Simple fix is to use preempt_disable_notrace() in cycles_2_ns, which
makes sense because the preempt_disable() tracing may use that code
too, and it tracing it, even with recursion protection is rather
pointless.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140204141315.2a968a72@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c b/arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c
index 19e5adb..acb3b60 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c
@@ -209,7 +209,7 @@ static inline unsigned long long cycles_2_ns(unsigned long long cyc)
* dance when its actually needed.
*/

- preempt_disable();
+ preempt_disable_notrace();
data = this_cpu_read(cyc2ns.head);
tail = this_cpu_read(cyc2ns.tail);

@@ -229,7 +229,7 @@ static inline unsigned long long cycles_2_ns(unsigned long long cyc)
if (!--data->__count)
this_cpu_write(cyc2ns.tail, data);
}
- preempt_enable();
+ preempt_enable_notrace();

return ns;
}
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