linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v9 35/37] tracing: Increase trace_recursive

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Date:   Wed, 07 Feb 2018 22:34:12 -0600
From:   Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@...ux.intel.com>
To:     Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc:     tglx@...utronix.de, mhiramat@...nel.org, namhyung@...nel.org,
        vedang.patel@...el.com, bigeasy@...utronix.de,
        joel.opensrc@...il.com, joelaf@...gle.com,
        mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com, baohong.liu@...el.com,
        rajvi.jingar@...el.com, julia@...com, fengguang.wu@...el.com,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-rt-users@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 35/37] tracing: Increase trace_recursive_lock() limit
 for synthetic events

Hi Steve,

On Wed, 2018-02-07 at 20:55 -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Jan 2018 20:52:09 -0600
> Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@...ux.intel.com> wrote:
> 
> >  static __always_inline int
> >  trace_recursive_lock(struct ring_buffer_per_cpu *cpu_buffer)
> >  {
> > -	if (cpu_buffer->current_context >= 4)
> > +	if (cpu_buffer->current_context >= 6)
> 
> I can't apply this patch because the new context counting broke tracing
> suspend and resume because it depended on the context recursive locking.
> 
> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180116020051.776011914@goodmis.org
> 
> I added the attached two patches which appear to do the job.
> 
> Let me know what you think.
> 

Yeah, these look good and seem to do the trick - I did some quick
testing and didn't see any problems.

Thanks,

Tom