linux-toradex.git/kernel/trace/trace_stack.c, branch v4.12-rc1

rcu/tracing: Add rcu_disabled to denote when rcu_irq_enter() will not work

2017-04-10T19:22:03+00:00

Tracing uses rcu_irq_enter() as a way to make sure that RCU is watching when
it needs to use rcu_read_lock() and friends. This is because tracing can
happen as RCU is about to enter user space, or about to go idle, and RCU
does not watch for RCU read side critical sections as it makes the
transition.

There is a small location within the RCU infrastructure that rcu_irq_enter()
itself will not work. If tracing were to occur in that section it will break
if it tries to use rcu_irq_enter().

Originally, this happens with the stack_tracer, because it will call
save_stack_trace when it encounters stack usage that is greater than any
stack usage it had encountered previously. There was a case where that
happened in the RCU section where rcu_irq_enter() did not work, and lockdep
complained loudly about it. To fix it, stack tracing added a call to be
disabled and RCU would disable stack tracing during the critical section
that rcu_irq_enter() was inoperable. This solution worked, but there are
other cases that use rcu_irq_enter() and it would be a good idea to let RCU
give a way to let others know that rcu_irq_enter() will not work. For
example, in trace events.

Another helpful aspect of this change is that it also moves the per cpu
variable called in the RCU critical section into a cache locale along with
other RCU per cpu variables used in that same location.

I'm keeping the stack_trace_disable() code, as that still could be used in
the future by places that really need to disable it. And since it's only a
static inline, it wont take up any kernel text if it is not used.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170405093207.404f8deb@gandalf.local.home

Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)

tracing: Rename trace_active to disable_stack_tracer and inline its modification

2017-04-10T19:21:47+00:00

In order to eliminate a function call, make "trace_active" into
"disable_stack_tracer" and convert stack_tracer_disable() and friends into
static inline functions.

Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)

tracing: Add stack_tracer_disable/enable() functions

2017-04-10T18:34:10+00:00

There are certain parts of the kernel that cannot let stack tracing
proceed (namely in RCU), because the stack tracer uses RCU, and parts of RCU
internals cannot handle having RCU read side locks taken.

Add stack_tracer_disable() and stack_tracer_enable() functions to let RCU
stop stack tracing on the current CPU when it is in those critical sections.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)

tracing: Replace the per_cpu() with __this_cpu*() in trace_stack.c

2017-04-10T18:33:54+00:00

The updates to the trace_active per cpu variable can be updated with the
__this_cpu_*() functions as it only gets updated on the CPU that the variable
is on.

Thanks to Paul McKenney for suggesting __this_cpu_* instead of this_cpu_*.

Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)

scripts/spelling.txt: add "overide" pattern and fix typo instances

2017-03-10T01:01:09+00:00

Fix typos and add the following to the scripts/spelling.txt:

  overide||override

While we are here, fix the doubled "address" in the touched line
Documentation/devicetree/bindings/regulator/ti-abb-regulator.txt.

Also, fix the comment block style in the touched hunks in
drivers/media/dvb-frontends/drx39xyj/drx_driver.h.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1481573103-11329-21-git-send-email-yamada.masahiro@socionext.com
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to

2017-03-02T07:42:36+00:00

We are going to split  out of , which
will have to be picked up from other headers and a couple of .c files.

Create a trivial placeholder  file that just
maps to  to make this patch obviously correct and
bisectable.

Include the new header in the files that are going to need it.

Acked-by: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Mike Galbraith 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

tracing, kasan: Silence Kasan warning in check_stack of stack_tracer

2016-02-19T17:36:44+00:00

When enabling stack trace via "echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/stack_tracer_enabled",
the below KASAN warning is triggered:

BUG: KASAN: stack-out-of-bounds in check_stack+0x344/0x848 at addr ffffffc0689ebab8
Read of size 8 by task ksoftirqd/4/29
page:ffffffbdc3a27ac0 count:0 mapcount:0 mapping:          (null) index:0x0
flags: 0x0()
page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
CPU: 4 PID: 29 Comm: ksoftirqd/4 Not tainted 4.5.0-rc1 #129
Hardware name: Freescale Layerscape 2085a RDB Board (DT)
Call trace:
[] dump_backtrace+0x0/0x3a0
[] show_stack+0x24/0x30
[] dump_stack+0xd8/0x168
[] kasan_report_error+0x6a0/0x920
[] kasan_report+0x70/0xb8
[] __asan_load8+0x60/0x78
[] check_stack+0x344/0x848
[] stack_trace_call+0x1c4/0x370
[] ftrace_ops_no_ops+0x2c0/0x590
[] ftrace_graph_call+0x0/0x14
[] fpsimd_thread_switch+0x24/0x1e8
[] __switch_to+0x34/0x218
[] __schedule+0x3ac/0x15b8
[] schedule+0x5c/0x178
[] smpboot_thread_fn+0x350/0x960
[] kthread+0x1d8/0x2b0
[] ret_from_fork+0x10/0x40
Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffffffc0689eb980: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 f1 f1 f1 f1 00 f4 f4 f4
 ffffffc0689eba00: f3 f3 f3 f3 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
>ffffffc0689eba80: 00 00 f1 f1 f1 f1 00 f4 f4 f4 f3 f3 f3 f3 00 00
                                        ^
 ffffffc0689ebb00: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
 ffffffc0689ebb80: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

The stacker tracer traverses the whole kernel stack when saving the max stack
trace. It may touch the stack red zones to cause the warning. So, just disable
the instrumentation to silence the warning.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1455309960-18930-1-git-send-email-yang.shi@linaro.org

Signed-off-by: Yang Shi 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

tracing/stacktrace: Show entire trace if passed in function not found

2016-01-29T17:19:10+00:00

When a max stack trace is discovered, the stack dump is saved. In order to
not record the overhead of the stack tracer, the ip of the traced function
is looked for within the dump. The trace is started from the location of
that function. But if for some reason the ip is not found, the entire stack
trace is then truncated. That's not very useful. Instead, print everything
if the ip of the traced function is not found within the trace.

This issue showed up on s390.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160129102241.1b3c9c04@gandalf.local.home

Fixes: 72ac426a5bb0 ("tracing: Clean up stack tracing and fix fentry updates")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.3+
Reported-by: Heiko Carstens 
Tested-by: Heiko Carstens 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

Merge tag 'trace-v4.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace

2015-11-06T21:30:20+00:00

Pull tracking updates from Steven Rostedt:
 "Most of the changes are clean ups and small fixes.  Some of them have
  stable tags to them.  I searched through my INBOX just as the merge
  window opened and found lots of patches to pull.  I ran them through
  all my tests and they were in linux-next for a few days.

  Features added this release:
  ----------------------------

   - Module globbing.  You can now filter function tracing to several
     modules.  # echo '*:mod:*snd*' > set_ftrace_filter (Dmitry Safonov)

   - Tracer specific options are now visible even when the tracer is not
     active.  It was rather annoying that you can only see and modify
     tracer options after enabling the tracer.  Now they are in the
     options/ directory even when the tracer is not active.  Although
     they are still only visible when the tracer is active in the
     trace_options file.

   - Trace options are now per instance (although some of the tracer
     specific options are global)

   - New tracefs file: set_event_pid.  If any pid is added to this file,
     then all events in the instance will filter out events that are not
     part of this pid.  sched_switch and sched_wakeup events handle next
     and the wakee pids"

* tag 'trace-v4.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (68 commits)
  tracefs: Fix refcount imbalance in start_creating()
  tracing: Put back comma for empty fields in boot string parsing
  tracing: Apply tracer specific options from kernel command line.
  tracing: Add some documentation about set_event_pid
  ring_buffer: Remove unneeded smp_wmb() before wakeup of reader benchmark
  tracing: Allow dumping traces without tracking trace started cpus
  ring_buffer: Fix more races when terminating the producer in the benchmark
  ring_buffer: Do no not complete benchmark reader too early
  tracing: Remove redundant TP_ARGS redefining
  tracing: Rename max_stack_lock to stack_trace_max_lock
  tracing: Allow arch-specific stack tracer
  recordmcount: arm64: Replace the ignored mcount call into nop
  recordmcount: Fix endianness handling bug for nop_mcount
  tracepoints: Fix documentation of RCU lockdep checks
  tracing: ftrace_event_is_function() can return boolean
  tracing: is_legal_op() can return boolean
  ring-buffer: rb_event_is_commit() can return boolean
  ring-buffer: rb_per_cpu_empty() can return boolean
  ring_buffer: ring_buffer_empty{cpu}() can return boolean
  ring-buffer: rb_is_reader_page() can return boolean
  ...

tracing: Rename max_stack_lock to stack_trace_max_lock

2015-11-03T19:50:15+00:00

Now that max_stack_lock is a global variable, it requires a naming
convention that is unlikely to collide. Rename it to the same naming
convention that the other stack_trace variables have.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt