linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] stop_machine: Mark functions as notrace

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Message-ID: <50bdca78-0cbb-5c62-f241-ed50737131b2@canonical.com>
Date:   Fri, 23 Oct 2020 20:29:24 +0100
From:   Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
To:     Zong Li <zong.li@...ive.com>, paulmck@...nel.org,
        josh@...htriplett.org, rostedt@...dmis.org,
        mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com, jiangshanlai@...il.com,
        joel@...lfernandes.org, vincent.whitchurch@...s.com,
        tglx@...utronix.de, paul.walmsley@...ive.com,
        palmerdabbelt@...gle.com, guoren@...nel.org, atishp@...shpatra.org,
        mhiramat@...nel.org, greentime.hu@...ive.com, rcu@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] stop_machine: Mark functions as notrace

On 21/10/2020 08:38, Zong Li wrote:
> Like the commit cb9d7fd51d9f ("watchdog: Mark watchdog touch functions
> as notrace"), some architectures assume that the stopped CPUs don't make
> function calls to traceable functions when they are in the stopped
> state. For example, it causes unexpected kernel crashed when switching
> tracer on RISC-V.
> 
> The following patches added calls to these two functions, fix it by
> adding the notrace annotations.
> 
> Fixes: 4ecf0a43e729 ("processor: get rid of cpu_relax_yield")
> Fixes: 366237e7b083 ("stop_machine: Provide RCU quiescent state in
> multi_cpu_stop()")
> 
> Signed-off-by: Zong Li <zong.li@...ive.com>
> ---
>  kernel/rcu/tree.c     | 2 +-
>  kernel/stop_machine.c | 2 +-
>  2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree.c b/kernel/rcu/tree.c
> index 06895ef85d69..2a52f42f64b6 100644
> --- a/kernel/rcu/tree.c
> +++ b/kernel/rcu/tree.c
> @@ -409,7 +409,7 @@ bool rcu_eqs_special_set(int cpu)
>   *
>   * The caller must have disabled interrupts and must not be idle.
>   */
> -void rcu_momentary_dyntick_idle(void)
> +notrace void rcu_momentary_dyntick_idle(void)
>  {
>  	int special;
>  
> diff --git a/kernel/stop_machine.c b/kernel/stop_machine.c
> index 865bb0228ab6..890b79cf0e7c 100644
> --- a/kernel/stop_machine.c
> +++ b/kernel/stop_machine.c
> @@ -178,7 +178,7 @@ static void ack_state(struct multi_stop_data *msdata)
>  		set_state(msdata, msdata->state + 1);
>  }
>  
> -void __weak stop_machine_yield(const struct cpumask *cpumask)
> +notrace void __weak stop_machine_yield(const struct cpumask *cpumask)
>  {
>  	cpu_relax();
>  }
> 

Apologies for taking so long to reply, I needed to test this on several
devices.

This not only fixes the ftrace issue I see on RISC-V but also a ftrace
hang issue on ARM64 in 5.8 too.

Tested-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>

Many thanks!