linux-kernel - [PATCH] x86: Use preempt_disable_notrace() in cycles_2

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Date:	Tue, 4 Feb 2014 14:13:15 -0500
From:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: [PATCH] x86: Use preempt_disable_notrace() in cycles_2_ns()

When debug preempt is enabled, preempt_disable() can be traced by
function and function graph tracing.

There's a place in the function graph tracer that calls trace_clock()
which eventually calls cycles_2_ns() outside of the recursion
protection. When cycles_2_ns() calls preempt_disable() it gets traced
and the graph tracer will go into a recursive loop causing a crash or
worse, a triple fault.

Simple fix is to use preempt_disable_notrace() in cycles_2_ns, which
makes sense because the preempt_disable() tracing may use that code
too, and it tracing it, even with recursion protection is rather
pointless.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c b/arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c
index 19e5adb..acb3b60 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c
@@ -209,7 +209,7 @@ static inline unsigned long long cycles_2_ns(unsigned long long cyc)
 	 * dance when its actually needed.
 	 */

-	preempt_disable();
+	preempt_disable_notrace();
 	data = this_cpu_read(cyc2ns.head);
 	tail = this_cpu_read(cyc2ns.tail);

@@ -229,7 +229,7 @@ static inline unsigned long long cycles_2_ns(unsigned long long cyc)
 		if (!--data->__count)
 			this_cpu_write(cyc2ns.tail, data);
 	}
-	preempt_enable();
+	preempt_enable_notrace();

 	return ns;
 }
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