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| author | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-07-03 08:44:07 -0500 |
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| committer | Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com> | 2012-01-16 13:00:19 -0600 |
| commit | c373d43ce0e9159bb833c3a85d6e255fab0496c5 (patch) | |
| tree | 5d7bd726f46851b76e223e3f66047f584babf60b /kernel/relay.c | |
| parent | f26acd399f53789d32f57dec0c9e6c272eaef86d (diff) | |
relay: fix timer madness
remove timer calls (!!!) from deep within the tracing infrastructure.
This was totally bogus code that can cause lockups and worse. Poll
the buffer every 2 jiffies for now.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/relay.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/relay.c | 14 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/relay.c b/kernel/relay.c index 226fade4d727..d5aeaa8bb9ee 100644 --- a/kernel/relay.c +++ b/kernel/relay.c @@ -336,6 +336,10 @@ static void wakeup_readers(unsigned long data) { struct rchan_buf *buf = (struct rchan_buf *)data; wake_up_interruptible(&buf->read_wait); + /* + * Stupid polling for now: + */ + mod_timer(&buf->timer, jiffies + 1); } /** @@ -353,6 +357,7 @@ static void __relay_reset(struct rchan_buf *buf, unsigned int init) init_waitqueue_head(&buf->read_wait); kref_init(&buf->kref); setup_timer(&buf->timer, wakeup_readers, (unsigned long)buf); + mod_timer(&buf->timer, jiffies + 1); } else del_timer_sync(&buf->timer); @@ -733,15 +738,6 @@ size_t relay_switch_subbuf(struct rchan_buf *buf, size_t length) else buf->early_bytes += buf->chan->subbuf_size - buf->padding[old_subbuf]; - smp_mb(); - if (waitqueue_active(&buf->read_wait)) - /* - * Calling wake_up_interruptible() from here - * will deadlock if we happen to be logging - * from the scheduler (trying to re-grab - * rq->lock), so defer it. - */ - mod_timer(&buf->timer, jiffies + 1); } old = buf->data; |