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Commit adb4f11e authored by Ding Tianhong's avatar Ding Tianhong Committed by Daniel Lezcano
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clocksource/drivers/arm_arch_timer: Avoid infinite recursion when ftrace is enabled

On platforms with an arch timer erratum workaround, it's possible for
arch_timer_reg_read_stable() to recurse into itself when certain
tracing options are enabled, leading to stack overflows and related
problems.

For example, when PREEMPT_TRACER and FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER are
selected, it's possible to trigger this with:

$ mount -t debugfs nodev /sys/kernel/debug/
$ echo function_graph > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/current_tracer

The problem is that in such cases, preempt_disable() instrumentation
attempts to acquire a timestamp via trace_clock(), resulting in a call
back to arch_timer_reg_read_stable(), and hence recursion.

This patch changes arch_timer_reg_read_stable() to use
preempt_{disable,enable}_notrace(), which avoids this.

This problem is similar to the fixed by upstream commit 96b3d28b
("sched/clock: Prevent tracing recursion in sched_clock_cpu()").

Fixes: 6acc71cc

 ("arm64: arch_timer: Allows a CPU-specific erratum to only affect a subset of CPUs")
Signed-off-by: default avatarDing Tianhong <dingtianhong@huawei.com>
Acked-by: default avatarMark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Acked-by: default avatarMarc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDaniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
parent 599dc457
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