linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] trace/osnoise: fix event unhooking

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Date:   Wed, 5 Jan 2022 19:00:04 -0500
From:   Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:     Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@...nel.org>
Cc:     Nikita Yushchenko <nikita.yushchenko@...tuozzo.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel@...nvz.org,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] trace/osnoise: fix event unhooking

On Mon, 3 Jan 2022 10:06:50 +0100
Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@...nel.org> wrote:

> Hi Nikita
> 
> On 12/28/21 15:07, Nikita Yushchenko wrote:
> > If start_per_cpu_kthreads() called from osnoise_workload_start() returns
> > error, event hooks are left in broken state: unhook_irq_events() called
> > but unhook_thread_events() and unhook_softirq_events() not called, and
> > trace_osnoise_callback_enabled flag not cleared.
> > 
> > On the next tracer enable, hooks get not installed due to
> > trace_osnoise_callback_enabled flag.
> > 
> > And on the further tracer disable an attempt to remove non-installed
> > hooks happened, hitting a WARN_ON_ONCE() in tracepoint_remove_func().
> > 
> > Fix the error path by adding the missing part of cleanup.  
> 
> Regarding the subject:
> 
>  - use tracing/ as subsystem (yeah, I also made this mistake in the original
>    osnoise series).
>  - use a capital after the "tracing/osnoise:"
> 
> Using your subject as example, it should be:
>     tracing/osnoise: Fix event unhooking

Thanks for mentioning this, as was going to.

> 
> Anyway, I suggest using something more precise, like:
> 
>   tracing/osnoise: Properly unhook events if start_per_cpu_kthreads() fails
> 
> or something like that.
> 
> > While at this, introduce osnoise_unhook_events() to avoid code
> > duplication between this error path and notmal tracer disable.  
> 
> s/notmal/normal/
> 
> > 
> > Fixes: bce29ac9ce0b ("trace: Add osnoise tracer")
> > Signed-off-by: Nikita Yushchenko <nikita.yushchenko@...tuozzo.com>
> > ---
> >  kernel/trace/trace_osnoise.c | 14 ++++++++++----
> >  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_osnoise.c b/kernel/trace/trace_osnoise.c
> > index 7520d43aed55..aa6f26612ccc 100644
> > --- a/kernel/trace/trace_osnoise.c
> > +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_osnoise.c
> > @@ -2123,6 +2123,13 @@ static int osnoise_hook_events(void)
> >  	return -EINVAL;
> >  }
> >  
> > +static void osnoise_unhook_events(void)
> > +{
> > +	unhook_thread_events();
> > +	unhook_softirq_events();
> > +	unhook_irq_events();
> > +}
> > +
> >  /*
> >   * osnoise_workload_start - start the workload and hook to events
> >   */
> > @@ -2155,7 +2162,8 @@ static int osnoise_workload_start(void)
> >  
> >  	retval = start_per_cpu_kthreads();
> >  	if (retval) {
> > -		unhook_irq_events();
> > +		trace_osnoise_callback_enabled = false;  
> 
> we need a barrier here, like:
> 
> 		/*
> 		 * Make sure that ftrace_nmi_enter/exit() see
> 		 * trace_osnoise_callback_enabled as false before continuing.
> 		 */
> 		barrier();

Nikita, are you going to send a v2?

-- Steve