linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/3] tracing: Move enabling tracepoints to just after mm

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Sun, 14 Dec 2014 12:26:44 -0800
From:	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] tracing: Move enabling tracepoints to just after
 mm_init()

On Sun, Dec 14, 2014 at 01:20:20PM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Sun, 14 Dec 2014 10:14:44 -0800
> "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> > > diff --git a/init/main.c b/init/main.c
> > > index 800a0daede7e..060e60b6aa59 100644
> > > --- a/init/main.c
> > > +++ b/init/main.c
> > > @@ -561,6 +561,9 @@ asmlinkage __visible void __init start_kernel(void)
> > >  	trap_init();
> > >  	mm_init();
> > > 
> > > +	/* trace_printk() and trace points may be used after this */
> > > +	trace_init();
> > 
> > Or if you aren't going to use call_rcu_sched() before this point, I could
> > move the call_rcu_sched()-relevant initialization to this point.  Or make
> > the compiler do it -- I am pretty sure that the per-CPU variables are in
> > place at this point.
> 
> Well, we could move trace_init() after rcu_init() for now too, and
> remove my tracepoint patch. But I'd like to have trace_init() go before
> sched_init() since that could possibly use debugging tracepoints as
> well.
> 
> So if you could add a rcu_partial_init() that makes calling
> call_rcu_sched() work, that would be great. That could be for 3.20
> then, and for now, I just move trace_init() after rcu_init() which is
> still before irq_init() that Thomas needs for his work.

Sounds like a good approach.  I also need to check up on documentation of
which RCU primitives can be used where, I suspect.

							Thanx, Paul

--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/