linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/6] pstore: Add event tracing support

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Date:   Tue, 18 Sep 2018 23:22:48 +0530
From:   Sai Prakash Ranjan <saiprakash.ranjan@...eaurora.org>
To:     Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Laura Abbott <labbott@...hat.com>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Anton Vorontsov <anton@...msg.org>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>, devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
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        Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
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        Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
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        Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>,
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        Rajendra Nayak <rnayak@...eaurora.org>,
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        tsoni@...eaurora.org, Bryan Huntsman <bryanh@...eaurora.org>,
        Tingwei Zhang <tingwei@...eaurora.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/6] pstore: Add event tracing support

On 9/18/2018 5:04 AM, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> 
> It looks like pstore_event_call() gets called from a trace event. You
> can't call kmalloc() from one. One thing is that kmalloc has
> tracepoints itself. You trace those you just entered an infinite loop.
> 
> 

Ok will remove it in v2. But any alternative way to do this?

>> +
>> +	event_call = fbuffer->trace_file->event_call;
>> +	if (!event_call || !event_call->event.funcs ||
>> +	    !event_call->event.funcs->trace)
>> +		goto fail_event;
>> +
>> +	event = &fbuffer->trace_file->event_call->event;
>> +
>> +	spin_lock_irqsave(&psinfo->buf_lock, flags);
>> +
>> +	trace_seq_init(&iter->seq);
>> +	iter->ent = fbuffer->entry;
> 
> I guess what you are doing is needing to translate the raw data into
> ascii output, and need the trace_iterator to do so.
> 
> You are already under a psinfo->buf_lock. Add a dummy iterator to that
> and use it instead.
> 
> 	trace_seq_init(&psinfo->iter->seq);
> 
>> +	event_call->event.funcs->trace(iter, 0, event);
> 
> 				      (psinfo->iter, 0 , event);
> 
> etc.
> 

Sure, will update in v2.

>> +	trace_seq_putc(&iter->seq, 0);
>> +
>> +	if (seq->size > psinfo->bufsize)
>> +		seq->size = psinfo->bufsize;
>> +
>> +	s = &iter->seq;
>> +	seq = &s->seq;
>> +
>> +	record.buf = (char *)(seq->buffer);
>> +	record.size = seq->len;
>> +	psinfo->write(&record);
>> +
>> +	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&psinfo->buf_lock, flags);
> 
> You may also need to convert these spin_locks into raw_spin_locks as
> when PREEMPT_RT enters the kernel you don't want them to turn into
> mutexes.
> 
> But that can be another patch.
> 

I will change this in v2, but can't we have it in same patch?

Thanks,
Sai

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