[for-next][PATCH 27/34] tracing: irqsoff: Account for additional preempt_disable

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Sat Aug 11 2018 - 09:51:19 EST


From: "Joel Fernandes (Google)" <joel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Recently we tried to make the preemptirqsoff tracer to use irqsoff
tracepoint probes. However this causes issues as reported by Masami:

[2.271078] Testing tracer preemptirqsoff: .. no entries found ..FAILED!
[2.381015] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1 at /home/mhiramat/ksrc/linux/kernel/
trace/trace.c:1512 run_tracer_selftest+0xf3/0x154

This is due to the tracepoint code increasing the preempt nesting count
by calling an additional preempt_disable before calling into the
preemptoff tracer which messes up the preempt_count() check in
tracer_hardirqs_off.

To fix this, make the irqsoff tracer probes balance the additional outer
preempt_disable with a preempt_enable_notrace.

The other way to fix this is to just use SRCU for all tracepoints.
However we can't do that because we can't use NMIs from RCU context.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180806034049.67949-1-joel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Fixes: c3bc8fd637a9 ("tracing: Centralize preemptirq tracepoints and unify their usage")
Fixes: e6753f23d961 ("tracepoint: Make rcuidle tracepoint callers use SRCU")
Reported-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/trace/trace_irqsoff.c | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 26 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_irqsoff.c b/kernel/trace/trace_irqsoff.c
index 770cd30cda40..ffbf1505d5bc 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_irqsoff.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_irqsoff.c
@@ -603,14 +603,40 @@ static void irqsoff_tracer_stop(struct trace_array *tr)
*/
static void tracer_hardirqs_on(void *none, unsigned long a0, unsigned long a1)
{
+ /*
+ * Tracepoint probes are expected to be called with preempt disabled,
+ * We don't care about being called with preempt disabled but we need
+ * to know in the future if that changes so we can remove the next
+ * preempt_enable.
+ */
+ WARN_ON_ONCE(!preempt_count());
+
+ /* Tracepoint probes disable preemption atleast once, account for that */
+ preempt_enable_notrace();
+
if (!preempt_trace() && irq_trace())
stop_critical_timing(a0, a1);
+
+ preempt_disable_notrace();
}

static void tracer_hardirqs_off(void *none, unsigned long a0, unsigned long a1)
{
+ /*
+ * Tracepoint probes are expected to be called with preempt disabled,
+ * We don't care about being called with preempt disabled but we need
+ * to know in the future if that changes so we can remove the next
+ * preempt_enable.
+ */
+ WARN_ON_ONCE(!preempt_count());
+
+ /* Tracepoint probes disable preemption atleast once, account for that */
+ preempt_enable_notrace();
+
if (!preempt_trace() && irq_trace())
start_critical_timing(a0, a1);
+
+ preempt_disable_notrace();
}

static int irqsoff_tracer_init(struct trace_array *tr)
--
2.18.0