From: "Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)" When recording the state of a task for the sched_switch tracepoint a check of task_preempt_count() is performed to see if PREEMPT_ACTIVE is set. This is because, technically, a task being preempted is really in the TASK_RUNNING state, and that is what should be recorded when tracing a sched_switch, even if the task put itself into another state (it hasn't scheduled out in that state yet). But with the change to use per_cpu preempt counts, the task_thread_info(p)->preempt_count is no longer used, and instead task_preempt_count(p) is used. The problem is that this does not use the current preempt count but a stale one from a previous sched_switch. The task_preempt_count(p) uses saved_preempt_count and not preempt_count(). But for tracing sched_switch, if p is current, we really want preempt_count(). I hit this bug when I was tracing sleep and the call from do_nanosleep() scheduled out in the "RUNNING" state. sleep-4290 [000] 537272.259992: sched_switch: sleep:4290 [120] R ==> swapper/0:0 [120] sleep-4290 [000] 537272.260015: kernel_stack: => __schedule (ffffffff8150864a) => schedule (ffffffff815089f8) => do_nanosleep (ffffffff8150b76c) => hrtimer_nanosleep (ffffffff8108d66b) => SyS_nanosleep (ffffffff8108d750) => return_to_handler (ffffffff8150e8e5) => tracesys_phase2 (ffffffff8150c844) After a bit of hair pulling, I found that the state was really TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE, but the saved_preempt_count had an old PREEMPT_ACTIVE set and caused the sched_switch tracepoint to show it as RUNNING. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20141210174428.3cb7542a@gandalf.local.home Acked-by: Ingo Molnar Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.13+ Cc: Peter Zijlstra Fixes: 01028747559a "sched: Create more preempt_count accessors" Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt --- include/trace/events/sched.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/include/trace/events/sched.h b/include/trace/events/sched.h index 0a68d5ae584e..a7d67bc14906 100644 --- a/include/trace/events/sched.h +++ b/include/trace/events/sched.h @@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ static inline long __trace_sched_switch_state(struct task_struct *p) /* * For all intents and purposes a preempted task is a running task. */ - if (task_preempt_count(p) & PREEMPT_ACTIVE) + if (preempt_count() & PREEMPT_ACTIVE) state = TASK_RUNNING | TASK_STATE_MAX; #endif -- 2.1.3 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/