Re: [PATCH v4 0/2] fix & prevent the missing preemption disabling

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Mon Oct 25 2021 - 22:42:41 EST


On Tue, 26 Oct 2021 10:09:12 +0800
王贇 <yun.wang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Just a ping, to see if there are any more comments :-P

I guess you missed what went into mainline (and your name found a bug
in my perl script for importing patches ;-)

https://lore.kernel.org/all/20211019091344.65629198@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/

Which means patch 1 needs to change:

> + /*
> + * Disable preemption to fulfill the promise.
> + *
> + * Don't worry about the bit 0 cases, they indicate
> + * the disabling behaviour has already been done by
> + * internal call previously.
> + */
> + preempt_disable_notrace();
> +
> return bit + 1;
> }
>
> +/*
> + * Preemption will be enabled (if it was previously enabled).
> + */
> static __always_inline void trace_clear_recursion(int bit)
> {
> if (!bit)
> return;
>
> + if (bit > 0)
> + preempt_enable_notrace();
> +

Where this wont work anymore.

Need to preempt disable and enable always.

-- Steve


> barrier();
> bit--;
> trace_recursion_clear(bit);
> @@ -209,7 +227,7 @@ static __always_inline void trace_clear_recursion(int bit)
> * tracing recursed in the same context (normal vs interrupt),
> *