Re: [Bug 209317] ftrace kernel self test failure on RISC-V on 5.8, regression from 5.4.0

[Zong Li]

Hi Atish,

I can take out some time to take a look at it together, if anyone here
fixes it or has ideas, please share the information, thanks.

On Sun, Oct 4, 2020 at 1:33 AM Atish Patra <atishp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi Alan and Zong,
> I initially suspected ftrace is broken between v5.6 & v5.7 as Kolin pointed out.
> I couldn't find any reason how the HSM patch is related. Zong's ftrace
> patching code was also merged in that release.
> However, I was able to reproduce the issue in the older kernel(v5.4)
> as well on both Qemu & Unleashed hardware.
> Here are the steps:
>
> mount -t debugfs none /sys/kernel/debug/
> cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing
> echo function_graph > current_tracer
> echo function > current_tracer
>
> It works for the first time with function_graph but writing any other
> tracer crashes immediately.
> Can you take a look to check if the bug is in ftrace infrastructure code ?
>
> On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 10:25 AM Atish Patra <Atish.Patra@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, 2020-09-28 at 11:13 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > > On Sat, 26 Sep 2020 22:02:35 +0000
> > > bugzilla-daemon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > >
> > > > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=209317
> > > >
> > > > --- Comment #4 from Colin Ian King (colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) ---
> > > > Issue still in 5.9-rc6
> > > >
> > >
> > > Atish,
> > >
> > > As the issues bisects down to your commit, care to take a look at
> > > this.
> > > (And take ownership of this bug)
> > >
> >
> > Yes. I am already looking into this. Colin informed me about the bug
> > over the weekend.
> >
> > I couldn't change the ownership as I am not part of the editbugs group.
> > I have sent an email to helpdesk@xxxxxxxxxx for access.
> >
> > > -- Steve
> >
> > --
> > Regards,
> > Atish
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>
>
> --
> Regards,
> Atish