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Commit 78cf0eb9 authored by Tiezhu Yang's avatar Tiezhu Yang Committed by Thomas Bogendoerfer
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MIPS: Fix kernel hang under FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER and PREEMPT_TRACER

When update the latest mainline kernel with the following three configs,
the kernel hangs during startup:

(1) CONFIG_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER=y
(2) CONFIG_PREEMPT_TRACER=y
(3) CONFIG_FTRACE_STARTUP_TEST=y

When update the latest mainline kernel with the above two configs (1)
and (2), the kernel starts normally, but it still hangs when execute
the following command:

echo "function_graph" > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/current_tracer

Without CONFIG_PREEMPT_TRACER=y, the above two kinds of kernel hangs
disappeared, so it seems that CONFIG_PREEMPT_TRACER has some influences
with function_graph tracer at the first glance.

I use ejtag to find out the epc address is related with preempt_enable()
in the file arch/mips/lib/mips-atomic.c, because function tracing can
trace the preempt_{enable,disable} calls that are traced, replace them
with preempt_{enable,disable}_notrace to prevent function tracing from
going into an infinite loop, and then it can fix the kernel hang issue.

By the way, it seems that this commit is a complement and improvement of
commit f93a1a00

 ("MIPS: Fix crash that occurs when function tracing
is enabled").

Signed-off-by: default avatarTiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@loongson.cn>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>
parent fef532ea
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