linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/3] Stop tracing on a schedule bug

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Date:	Thu, 15 Apr 2010 23:03:59 +0200
From:	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
To:	Chase Douglas <chase.douglas@...onical.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] Stop tracing on a schedule bug

On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 12:20:16PM -0400, Chase Douglas wrote:
> This change adds a tracing_off_event() call to stop tracing on schedule
> bugs unless tracing_off=none was specified on the commandline.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Chase Douglas <chase.douglas@...onical.com>
> ---
>  kernel/sched.c |    2 ++
>  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/sched.c b/kernel/sched.c
> index 6af210a..439f036 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched.c
> @@ -3590,6 +3590,8 @@ static noinline void __schedule_bug(struct task_struct *prev)
>  {
>  	struct pt_regs *regs = get_irq_regs();
>  
> +	tracing_off_event(TRACE_EVENT_BUG);
> +
>  	printk(KERN_ERR "BUG: scheduling while atomic: %s/%d/0x%08x\n",
>  		prev->comm, prev->pid, preempt_count());



I would rather call that a TRACE_EVENT_WARN as this is what happens: we
warn but we continue.

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