On 26/07/2017 04:42, Ding Tianhong wrote:

On 2017/7/10 19:22, Mark Rutland wrote:

quoted

On Sun, Jul 09, 2017 at 04:30:54PM +0800, Ding Tianhong wrote:

quoted

When enable preempt and debug ftrace, and perform the following steps, the
system will hang:
mount -t debugfs nodev /sys/kernel/debug/
cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/
echo function_graph > current_tracer

This is because tracing the preempt_disable/enable calls would cause
trace_clock() which would get local timer to go into infinite recursion
when enable the arch timer erratum workaround for some chips, so Prevent
tracing of preempt_disable/enable() in arch_timer_reg_read_stable().

This problem is similar to the fixed by upstream commit 96b3d28bf4
("sched/clock: Prevent tracing recursion in sched_clock_cpu()").

As I mentioned before, the patch itself looks fine to me, but the commit
message is somewhat difficult to read.

Can we please change this to:

  arm64: arch_timer: avoid infinite recursion when ftrace is enabled

  On platforms with an arch timer erratum workaround, it's possible for
  arch_timer_reg_read_stable() to recurse into itself when certain
  tracing options are enabled, leading to stack overflows and related
  problems.
 
  For example, when PREEMPT_TRACER and FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER are
  selected, it's possible to trigger this with:
  
  $ mount -t debugfs nodev /sys/kernel/debug/
  $ echo function_graph > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/current_tracer

  The problem is that in such cases, preempt_disable() instrumentation
  attempts to acquire a timestamp via trace_clock(), resulting in a call
  back to arch_timer_reg_read_stable(), and hence recursion.

  This patch changes arch_timer_reg_read_stable() to use
  preempt_{disable,enable}_notrace(), which avoids this.

With that commit message:

Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>

Daniel, Thomas, would you be happy to fold that in when picking this? Or
would you prefer that I fix this up and resend?

Hi Danial, Thomas:

It looks didn't merge to the mainline tree yet, should I update the commit and
resend this patch again?

Yes, please. I'm coming back from two weeks OoO, that will help.

Thanks.

  -- Daniel


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