[LTP] [PATCH] powerpc: Fix hcall tracepoint recursion

Anton Blanchard
2010-10-21T11:12:05Z

Hi,

> This is a dead loop:
>
> trace_hcall_entry() -> trace_clock_global() -> trace_hcall_entry() ..
>
> And this is a PPC specific bug. Hope some ppc guys will fix it?
> Or we kill trace_clock_global() if no one actually uses it..

Nasty! How does the patch below look? I had to disable irqs otherwise
we would sometimes drop valid events (if we take an interrupt anywhere
in the region where depth is elevated, then the entire interrupt will
be blocked from calling hcall tracepoints.

Anton
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Subject: [PATCH] powerpc: Fix hcall tracepoint recursion

Spinlocks on shared processor partitions use H_YIELD to notify the
hypervisor we are waiting on another virtual CPU. Unfortunately this means
the hcall tracepoints can recurse.

The patch below adds a percpu depth and checks it on both the entry and
exit hcall tracepoints.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
---

Index: powerpc.git/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/lpar.c
===================================================================
--- powerpc.git.orig/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/lpar.c 2010-10-21 17:32:00.980003644 +1100
+++ powerpc.git/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/lpar.c 2010-10-21 17:34:54.942681273 +1100
@@ -701,6 +701,13 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(arch_free_page);
/* NB: reg/unreg are called while guarded with the tracepoints_mutex */
extern long hcall_tracepoint_refcount;

+/*
+ * Since the tracing code might execute hcalls we need to guard against
+ * recursion. One example of this are spinlocks calling H_YIELD on
+ * shared processor partitions.
+ */
+static DEFINE_PER_CPU(unsigned int, hcall_trace_depth);
+
void hcall_tracepoint_regfunc(void)
{
hcall_tracepoint_refcount++;
@@ -713,12 +720,42 @@ void hcall_tracepoint_unregfunc(void)

void __trace_hcall_entry(unsigned long opcode, unsigned long *args)
{
+ unsigned long flags;
+ unsigned int *depth;
+
+ local_irq_save(flags);
+
+ depth = &__get_cpu_var(hcall_trace_depth);
+
+ if (*depth)
+ goto out;
+
+ (*depth)++;
trace_hcall_entry(opcode, args);
+ (*depth)--;
+
+out:
+ local_irq_restore(flags);
}

void __trace_hcall_exit(long opcode, unsigned long retval,
unsigned long *retbuf)
{
+ unsigned long flags;
+ unsigned int *depth;
+
+ local_irq_save(flags);
+
+ depth = &__get_cpu_var(hcall_trace_depth);
+
+ if (*depth)
+ goto out;
+
+ (*depth)++;
trace_hcall_exit(opcode, retval, retbuf);
+ (*depth)--;
+
+out:
+ local_irq_restore(flags);
}
#endif

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