linux-kernel - [PATCH] x86 mmiotrace: only register for die notifier when tracer active

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Message-Id: <1240946271-7083-5-git-send-email-stuart@freedesktop.org>
Date:	Tue, 28 Apr 2009 20:17:51 +0100
From:	Stuart Bennett <stuart@...edesktop.org>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc:	Pekka Paalanen <pq@....fi>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Stuart Bennett <stuart@...edesktop.org>
Subject: [PATCH] x86 mmiotrace: only register for die notifier when tracer active

Follow up to afcfe024aebd74b0984a41af9a34e009cf5badaf in Linus' tree
("x86: mmiotrace: quieten spurious warning message")

Signed-off-by: Stuart Bennett <stuart@...edesktop.org>
Acked-by: Pekka Paalanen <pq@....fi>
---
 arch/x86/mm/kmmio.c       |   21 ++++++++++++++++++---
 arch/x86/mm/mmio-mod.c    |    2 ++
 include/linux/mmiotrace.h |    2 ++
 3 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/kmmio.c b/arch/x86/mm/kmmio.c
index 422f49e..bdbbf0d 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/kmmio.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/kmmio.c
@@ -311,7 +311,12 @@ static int post_kmmio_handler(unsigned long condition, struct pt_regs *regs)
 	struct kmmio_context *ctx = &get_cpu_var(kmmio_ctx);
 
 	if (!ctx->active) {
-		pr_debug("kmmio: spurious debug trap on CPU %d.\n",
+		/*
+		 * debug traps without an active context are due to either
+		 * something external causing them (f.e. using a debugger while
+		 * mmio tracing enabled), or erroneous behaviour
+		 */
+		pr_warning("kmmio: unexpected debug trap on CPU %d.\n",
 							smp_processor_id());
 		goto out;
 	}
@@ -545,11 +550,21 @@ static struct notifier_block nb_die = {
 	.notifier_call = kmmio_die_notifier
 };
 
-static int __init init_kmmio(void)
+int kmmio_init(void)
 {
 	int i;
 	for (i = 0; i < KMMIO_PAGE_TABLE_SIZE; i++)
 		INIT_LIST_HEAD(&kmmio_page_table[i]);
 	return register_die_notifier(&nb_die);
 }
-fs_initcall(init_kmmio); /* should be before device_initcall() */
+
+void kmmio_cleanup(void)
+{
+	int i;
+
+	unregister_die_notifier(&nb_die);
+	for (i = 0; i < KMMIO_PAGE_TABLE_SIZE; i++)
+		WARN_ONCE(!list_empty(&kmmio_page_table[i]),
+			  KERN_ERR "kmmio_page_table not empty at cleanup, "
+				   "any further tracing will leak memory\n");
+}
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/mmio-mod.c b/arch/x86/mm/mmio-mod.c
index c9342ed..132772a 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/mmio-mod.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/mmio-mod.c
@@ -451,6 +451,7 @@ void enable_mmiotrace(void)
 
 	if (nommiotrace)
 		pr_info(NAME "MMIO tracing disabled.\n");
+	kmmio_init();
 	enter_uniprocessor();
 	spin_lock_irq(&trace_lock);
 	atomic_inc(&mmiotrace_enabled);
@@ -473,6 +474,7 @@ void disable_mmiotrace(void)
 
 	clear_trace_list(); /* guarantees: no more kmmio callbacks */
 	leave_uniprocessor();
+	kmmio_cleanup();
 	pr_info(NAME "disabled.\n");
 out:
 	mutex_unlock(&mmiotrace_mutex);
diff --git a/include/linux/mmiotrace.h b/include/linux/mmiotrace.h
index 3d1b7bd..97491f7 100644
--- a/include/linux/mmiotrace.h
+++ b/include/linux/mmiotrace.h
@@ -30,6 +30,8 @@ extern unsigned int kmmio_count;
 
 extern int register_kmmio_probe(struct kmmio_probe *p);
 extern void unregister_kmmio_probe(struct kmmio_probe *p);
+extern int kmmio_init(void);
+extern void kmmio_cleanup(void);
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_MMIOTRACE
 /* kmmio is active by some kmmio_probes? */
-- 
1.5.4.4

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