[for-next][PATCH 2/8] tracing: Do not start benchmark on boot up

[Steven Rostedt]

From: "Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)" <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Trace events are enabled very early on boot up via the boot command line
parameter. The benchmark tool creates a new thread to perform the trace
event benchmarking. But at start up, it is called before scheduling is set
up and because it creates a new thread before the init thread is created,
this crashes the kernel.

Have the benchmark fail to register when started via the kernel command
line.

Also, since the registering of a tracepoint now can handle failure cases,
return -ENOMEM instead of warning if the thread cannot be created.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 kernel/trace/trace_benchmark.c | 12 +++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_benchmark.c b/kernel/trace/trace_benchmark.c
index f76d0416dd83..2bc7dc3e8ff8 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_benchmark.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_benchmark.c
@@ -166,9 +166,18 @@ static int benchmark_event_kthread(void *arg)
  */
 int trace_benchmark_reg(void)
 {
+	if (system_state != SYSTEM_RUNNING) {
+		pr_warning("trace benchmark cannot be started via kernel command line\n");
+		return -EBUSY;
+	}
+
 	bm_event_thread = kthread_run(benchmark_event_kthread,
 				      NULL, "event_benchmark");
-	WARN_ON(!bm_event_thread);
+	if (!bm_event_thread) {
+		pr_warning("trace benchmark failed to create kernel thread\n");
+		return -ENOMEM;
+	}
+
 	return 0;
 }
 
@@ -183,6 +192,7 @@ void trace_benchmark_unreg(void)
 		return;
 
 	kthread_stop(bm_event_thread);
+	bm_event_thread = NULL;
 
 	strcpy(bm_str, "START");
 	bm_total = 0;
-- 
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