linux-kernel - Re: BUG: dead loop in PowerPC hcall tracepoint (Was: [LTP] [PATCH v2] Add ftrace-stress-test to LTP)

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Message-ID: <1287411903.16971.275.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com>
Date:	Mon, 18 Oct 2010 10:25:03 -0400
From:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:	Li Zefan <lizf@...fujitsu.com>
Cc:	subrata@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, ltp-list@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Anton Blanchard <anton@...ba.org>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: BUG: dead loop in PowerPC hcall tracepoint (Was: [LTP] [PATCH
 v2] Add ftrace-stress-test to LTP)

On Mon, 2010-10-18 at 11:19 +0800, Li Zefan wrote:

> This is a dead loop:
> 
> trace_hcall_entry() -> trace_clock_global() -> trace_hcall_entry() ..
> 
> And this is a PPC specific bug. Hope some ppc guys will fix it?
> Or we kill trace_clock_global() if no one actually uses it..

trace_clock_global() is used by many. I use it (and recommend using it)
on boxes where the TSC is horribly out of sync, and the trace needs
synchronization between CPUs.

The trace_hcall_entry and exit has wrappers already. Just add recursion
protection there.

Perhaps something like this:

(Not compiled nor ran)

+static DEFINE_PER_CPU(hcall_trace_disable);
+
 void hcall_tracepoint_regfunc(void)
 {
 	hcall_tracepoint_refcount++;
 }

 void hcall_tracepoint_unregfunc(void)
 {
 	hcall_tracepoint_refcount--;
 }

+int __trace_disable_check(void)
+{
+	if (!hcall_tracepoint_refcount)
+		return 1;
+
+	if (get_cpu_var(hcall_trace_disable)) {
+		put_cpu_var(hcall_trace_disable);
+		return 1;
+	}
+
+	__get_cpu_var(hcall_trace_disable)++;
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
+void __trace_disable_put(void)
+{
+	__get_cpu_var(hcall_trace_disable)--;
+	put_cpu_var(hcall_trace_disable);
+}
+
 void __trace_hcall_entry(unsigned long opcode, unsigned long *args)
 {
+	int trace_disable;
+
+	if (__trace_disable_check())
+		return;
+
 	trace_hcall_entry(opcode, args);
+	__trace_disable_put();
 }

 void __trace_hcall_exit(long opcode, unsigned long retval,
 			unsigned long *retbuf)
 {
+	if (__trace_disable_check())
+		return;
+
 	trace_hcall_exit(opcode, retval, retbuf);
+	__trace_disable_put();
 }

-- Steve


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