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| author | Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> | 2011-02-10 21:26:13 -0500 |
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| committer | Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> | 2011-02-11 16:23:33 -0500 |
| commit | 868baf07b1a259f5f3803c1dc2777b6c358f83cf (patch) | |
| tree | a97caf3db1095ceb806ba53ba7d88d47a153e1b8 /include/linux/ftrace.h | |
| parent | 862b6f62bf0cd768910b087f6d051f420206c4d6 (diff) | |
ftrace: Fix memory leak with function graph and cpu hotplug
When the fuction graph tracer starts, it needs to make a special
stack for each task to save the real return values of the tasks.
All running tasks have this stack created, as well as any new
tasks.
On CPU hot plug, the new idle task will allocate a stack as well
when init_idle() is called. The problem is that cpu hotplug does
not create a new idle_task. Instead it uses the idle task that
existed when the cpu went down.
ftrace_graph_init_task() will add a new ret_stack to the task
that is given to it. Because a clone will make the task
have a stack of its parent it does not check if the task's
ret_stack is already NULL or not. When the CPU hotplug code
starts a CPU up again, it will allocate a new stack even
though one already existed for it.
The solution is to treat the idle_task specially. In fact, the
function_graph code already does, just not at init_idle().
Instead of using the ftrace_graph_init_task() for the idle task,
which that function expects the task to be a clone, have a
separate ftrace_graph_init_idle_task(). Also, we will create a
per_cpu ret_stack that is used by the idle task. When we call
ftrace_graph_init_idle_task() it will check if the idle task's
ret_stack is NULL, if it is, then it will assign it the per_cpu
ret_stack.
Reported-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Stable Tree <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/ftrace.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/ftrace.h | 2 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/ftrace.h b/include/linux/ftrace.h index dcd6a7c3a435..ca29e03c1fac 100644 --- a/include/linux/ftrace.h +++ b/include/linux/ftrace.h @@ -428,6 +428,7 @@ extern void unregister_ftrace_graph(void); extern void ftrace_graph_init_task(struct task_struct *t); extern void ftrace_graph_exit_task(struct task_struct *t); +extern void ftrace_graph_init_idle_task(struct task_struct *t, int cpu); static inline int task_curr_ret_stack(struct task_struct *t) { @@ -451,6 +452,7 @@ static inline void unpause_graph_tracing(void) static inline void ftrace_graph_init_task(struct task_struct *t) { } static inline void ftrace_graph_exit_task(struct task_struct *t) { } +static inline void ftrace_graph_init_idle_task(struct task_struct *t, int cpu) { } static inline int register_ftrace_graph(trace_func_graph_ret_t retfunc, trace_func_graph_ent_t entryfunc) |