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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] tracing/events/lockdep: move tracepoints within recursive protection
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 18:47:49 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1239900469.23397.3128.camel@laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090416161746.831882528@goodmis.org>

On Thu, 2009-04-16 at 12:15 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> plain text document attachment
> (0002-tracing-events-lockdep-move-tracepoints-within-recu.patch)
> From: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
> 
> With the current location of the tracepoints in lockdep, the system
> can hard lockup in minutes when the tracepoints are enabled.
> 
> Moving the tracepoints outside inside the lockdep protection solves
> the issue.

NAK

the idea is to eventually move lockdep on top of the tracepoints. The
tracer should grow to be more robust and handle recursion itself.

Its likely a case of the tracer using a spinlock or mutex in the
tracepoint code. When I did the tracepoints I converted one such to a
raw_spinlock_t in the trace_print code.




  reply	other threads:[~2009-04-16 16:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-16 16:15 [PATCH 0/2] [GIT PULL] updates for event tester and lockdep tracer Steven Rostedt
2009-04-16 16:15 ` [PATCH 1/2] tracing/events: perform function tracing in event selftests Steven Rostedt
2009-04-17 16:10   ` [tip:tracing/core] " tip-bot for Steven Rostedt
2009-04-16 16:15 ` [PATCH 2/2] tracing/events/lockdep: move tracepoints within recursive protection Steven Rostedt
2009-04-16 16:47   ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2009-04-16 17:03     ` Steven Rostedt
2009-04-16 17:20       ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-04-16 17:38         ` Steven Rostedt
2009-04-16 17:49           ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-04-16 17:58             ` Steven Rostedt
2009-04-16 18:06               ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-04-16 18:12                 ` Steven Rostedt
2009-04-16 18:29                   ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-04-16 18:22               ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-04-16 17:45     ` Steven Rostedt
2009-04-16 17:53       ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-04-17  3:03         ` Steven Rostedt
2009-04-17  3:24           ` Steven Rostedt
2009-04-17  7:40             ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-04-17 16:03               ` [tip:core/urgent] lockdep: more robust lockdep_map init sequence tip-bot for Peter Zijlstra
2009-04-17  4:16           ` [PATCH 2/2] tracing/events/lockdep: move tracepoints within recursive protection Steven Rostedt
2009-04-17  4:36             ` Steven Rostedt
2009-04-17  4:52             ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-04-17 11:09               ` Steven Rostedt
2009-04-17 22:19                 ` [PATCH] x86 entry_64.S lockdep fix Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-04-18 13:54                   ` Steven Rostedt
2009-04-19  4:11                     ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-04-19  9:10                       ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-17  7:44             ` [PATCH 2/2] tracing/events/lockdep: move tracepoints within recursive protection Peter Zijlstra
2009-04-16 16:40 ` [PATCH 0/2] [GIT PULL] updates for event tester and lockdep tracer Ingo Molnar

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