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Message-Id: <1245474372-5249-3-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Date:	Sat, 20 Jun 2009 07:06:12 +0200
From:	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] tracing/urgent: warn in case of ftrace_start_up inbalance

Prevent from further ftrace_start_up inbalances so that we avoid
future nop patching omissions with dynamic ftrace.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
---
 kernel/trace/ftrace.c |    7 +++++++
 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
index bb60732..3718d55 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
@@ -1224,6 +1224,13 @@ static void ftrace_shutdown(int command)
 		return;
 
 	ftrace_start_up--;
+	/*
+	 * Just warn in case of unbalance, no need to kill ftrace, it's not
+	 * critical but the ftrace_call callers may be never nopped again after
+	 * further ftrace uses.
+	 */
+	WARN_ON_ONCE(ftrace_start_up < 0);
+
 	if (!ftrace_start_up)
 		command |= FTRACE_DISABLE_CALLS;
 
-- 
1.6.2.3

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