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authorFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>2015-06-04 17:39:07 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2015-06-07 15:57:41 +0200
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parentMerge branch 'linus' into sched/core, to resolve conflict (diff)
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sched: Make preempt_schedule_context() function-tracing safe
Since function tracing disables preemption, it needs a safe preemption point to use when preemption is re-enabled without worrying about tracing recursion. Ie: to avoid tracing recursion, that preemption point can't be traced (use of notrace qualifier) and it can't call any traceable function before that preemption point disables preemption itself, which disarms the recursion. preempt_schedule() was fine until commit: b30f0e3ffedf ("sched/preempt: Optimize preemption operations on __schedule() callers") because PREEMPT_ACTIVE (which has the property to disable preemption and this disarm tracing preemption recursion) was set before calling any further function. But that commit introduced the use of preempt_count_add/sub() functions to set PREEMPT_ACTIVE and because these functions are called before preemption gets a chance to be disabled, we have a tracing recursion. preempt_schedule_context() is one of the possible preemption functions used by tracing. Its special purpose is to avoid tracing recursion against context tracking. Lets enhance this function to become more generally tracing safe by disabling preemption with raw accessors, such that no function is called before preemption gets disabled and disarm the tracing recursion. This function is going to become the specific tracing-safe preemption point in further commit. Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1433432349-1021-2-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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