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From: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>,
	Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>, Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>, Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] tracing: Protect the buffer from recursion in perf
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:40:04 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091110104002.GE5255@nowhere> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1257848862.4648.33.camel@twins>

On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 11:27:42AM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> There already is recursion protection in
> kernel/perf_event.c:perf_swevent_recursion_context() and thereabouts.
> Could you not fix this by widening its scope?


Hmm, indeed.
I could probably use perf_swevent_recursion_context() directly from
the tracing fill path. And then split up a bit do_perf_sw_event()
so that it continues to check the recursion for normal software events
but not for trace events (for which we would already explicitly
call perf_swevent_recursion_context()).

I'll try that, thanks!


      reply	other threads:[~2009-11-10 10:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-11-04 22:23 [PATCH] tracing: Protect the buffer from recursion in perf Frederic Weisbecker
2009-11-05  3:06 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2009-11-06  3:13   ` [PATCH v2] " Frederic Weisbecker
2009-11-08  9:40     ` [tip:perf/probes] tracing, perf_events: " tip-bot for Frederic Weisbecker
2009-11-10 10:27     ` [PATCH v2] tracing: " Peter Zijlstra
2009-11-10 10:40       ` Frederic Weisbecker [this message]

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