linux-toradex.git/kernel/trace/trace_stack.c, branch v4.14-rc3

tracing: Remove RCU work arounds from stack tracer

2017-09-23T20:50:20+00:00

Currently the stack tracer calls rcu_irq_enter() to make sure RCU
is watching when it records a stack trace. But if the stack tracer
is triggered while tracing inside of a rcu_irq_enter(), calling
rcu_irq_enter() unconditionally can be problematic.

The reason for having rcu_irq_enter() in the first place has been
fixed from within the saving of the stack trace code, and there's no
reason for doing it in the stack tracer itself. Just remove it.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 0be964be0 ("module: Sanitize RCU usage and locking")
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney 
Suggested-by: "Paul E. McKenney" 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)

tracing: Do note expose stack_trace_filter without DYNAMIC_FTRACE

2017-07-11T23:21:04+00:00

The "stack_trace_filter" file only makes sense if DYNAMIC_FTRACE is
configured in. If it is not, then the user can not filter any functions.

Not only that, the open function causes warnings when DYNAMIC_FTRACE is not
set.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170710110521.600806-1-arnd@arndb.de

Reported-by: Arnd Bergmann 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)

ftrace: Fix regression with module command in stack_trace_filter

2017-06-29T14:05:45+00:00

When doing the following command:

 # echo ":mod:kvm_intel" > /sys/kernel/tracing/stack_trace_filter

it triggered a crash.

This happened with the clean up of probes. It required all callers to the
regex function (doing ftrace filtering) to have ops->private be a pointer to
a trace_array. But for the stack tracer, that is not the case.

Allow for the ops->private to be NULL, and change the function command
callbacks to handle the trace_array pointer being NULL as well.

Fixes: d2afd57a4b96 ("tracing/ftrace: Allow instances to have their own function probes")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)

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