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From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linuxppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] powerpc/ftrace: Do not trace restore_interrupts()
Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2012 22:27:54 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1338863274.13348.530.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com> (raw)

As I was adding code that affects all archs, I started testing function
tracer against PPC64 and found that it currently locks up with 3.4
kernel. I figured it was due to tracing a function that shouldn't be, so
I went through the following process to bisect to find the culprit:

 cat /debug/tracing/available_filter_functions > t
 num=`wc -l t`
 sed -ne "1,${num}p" t > t1
 let num=num+1
 sed -ne "${num},$p" t > t2
 cat t1 > /debug/tracing/set_ftrace_filter
 echo function /debug/tracing/current_tracer
 <failed? bisect t1, if not bisect t2>

It finally came down to this function: restore_interrupts()

I'm not sure why this locks up the system. It just seems to prevent
scheduling from occurring. Interrupts seem to still work, as I can ping
the box. But all user processes freeze.

When restore_interrupts() is not traced, function tracing works fine.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/irq.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/irq.c
index 641da9e..64eec59 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/irq.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/irq.c
@@ -277,7 +277,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(arch_local_irq_restore);
  * NOTE: This is called with interrupts hard disabled but not marked
  * as such in paca->irq_happened, so we need to resync this.
  */
-void restore_interrupts(void)
+void notrace restore_interrupts(void)
 {
 	if (irqs_disabled()) {
 		local_paca->irq_happened |= PACA_IRQ_HARD_DIS;

             reply	other threads:[~2012-06-05  2:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-06-05  2:27 Steven Rostedt [this message]
2012-06-05  2:33 ` [PATCH] powerpc/ftrace: Do not trace restore_interrupts() Steven Rostedt

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