linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 11/11 v3] ftrace: Add recording of functions that caused recursion

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Message-ID: <20201106131317.GW20201@alley>
Date:   Fri, 6 Nov 2020 14:13:17 +0100
From:   Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>
To:     Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 11/11 v3] ftrace: Add recording of functions that caused
 recursion

On Thu 2020-11-05 21:32:46, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> From: "Steven Rostedt (VMware)" <rostedt@...dmis.org>
> 
> This adds CONFIG_FTRACE_RECORD_RECURSION that will record to a file
> "recursed_functions" all the functions that caused recursion while a
> callback to the function tracer was running.
> 
> Changes since v2:
> 
>  - Use trace_recursion flags in current for protecting recursion of recursion recording
>  - Make the recursion logic a little cleaner
>  - Export GPL the recursion recording

JFYI, the code reading and writing the cache looks good to me.

It is still possible that some entries might stay unused (filled
with zeroes) but it should be hard to hit in practice. It
is good enough from my POV.

I do not give Reviewed-by tag just because I somehow do not have power
to review the entire patch carefully enough at the moment.

Best Regards,
Petr