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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Subject: [ 29/47] ftrace: Do not function trace inlined functions
Date: Wed,  9 Jan 2013 12:35:24 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130109201732.848206759@linuxfoundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130109201729.435233560@linuxfoundation.org>

3.0-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>

commit 45959ee7aa645815a5ce303a0ea1e48a21e67c6a upstream.

When gcc inlines a function, it does not mark it with the mcount
prologue, which in turn means that inlined functions are not traced
by the function tracer. But if CONFIG_OPTIMIZE_INLINING is set, then
gcc is allowed not to inline a function that is marked inline.

Depending on the options and the compiler, a function may or may
not be traced by the function tracer, depending on whether gcc
decides to inline a function or not. This has caused several
problems in the pass becaues gcc is not always consistent with
what it decides to inline between different gcc versions.

Some places should not be traced (like paravirt native_* functions)
and these are mostly marked as inline. When gcc decides not to
inline the function, and if that function should not be traced, then
the ftrace function tracer will suddenly break when it use to work
fine. This becomes even harder to debug when different versions of
gcc will not inline that function, making the same kernel and config
work for some gcc versions and not work for others.

By making all functions marked inline to not be traced will remove
the ambiguity that gcc adds when it comes to tracing functions marked
inline. All gcc versions will be consistent with what functions are
traced and having volatile working code will be removed.

Note, only the inline macro when CONFIG_OPTIMIZE_INLINING is set needs
to have notrace added, as the attribute __always_inline will force
the function to be inlined and then not traced.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 include/linux/compiler-gcc.h |    5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

--- a/include/linux/compiler-gcc.h
+++ b/include/linux/compiler-gcc.h
@@ -50,6 +50,11 @@
 # define inline		inline		__attribute__((always_inline))
 # define __inline__	__inline__	__attribute__((always_inline))
 # define __inline	__inline	__attribute__((always_inline))
+#else
+/* A lot of inline functions can cause havoc with function tracing */
+# define inline		inline		notrace
+# define __inline__	__inline__	notrace
+# define __inline	__inline	notrace
 #endif
 
 #define __deprecated			__attribute__((deprecated))



  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-01-09 20:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-01-09 20:34 [ 00/47] 3.0.58-stable review Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-01-09 20:34 ` [ 01/47] bonding: Bonding driver does not consider the gso_max_size/gso_max_segs setting of slave devices Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-01-09 20:34 ` [ 02/47] bonding: fix race condition in bonding_store_slaves_active Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-01-09 20:34 ` [ 03/47] sctp: fix memory leak in sctp_datamsg_from_user() when copy from user space fails Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-01-09 20:34 ` [ 04/47] sctp: fix -ENOMEM result with invalid user space pointer in sendto() syscall Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-01-09 20:35 ` [ 05/47] ne2000: add the right platform device Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-01-09 20:35 ` [ 06/47] irda: sir_dev: Fix copy/paste typo Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-01-09 20:35 ` [ 07/47] usb/ipheth: Add iPhone 5 support Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-01-09 20:35 ` [ 08/47] pnpacpi: fix incorrect TEST_ALPHA() test Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-01-09 20:35 ` [ 09/47] exec: do not leave bprm->interp on stack Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-01-09 20:35 ` [ 10/47] x86, 8042: Enable A20 using KBC to fix S3 resume on some MSI laptops Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-01-09 20:35 ` [ 11/47] virtio: force vring descriptors to be allocated from lowmem Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-01-09 20:35 ` [ 12/47] mm: Fix PageHead when !CONFIG_PAGEFLAGS_EXTENDED Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-01-09 20:35 ` [ 13/47] tmpfs mempolicy: fix /proc/mounts corrupting memory Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-01-09 20:35 ` [ 14/47] ALSA: usb-audio: Avoid autopm calls after disconnection Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-01-09 20:35 ` [ 15/47] ALSA: usb-audio: Fix missing autopm for MIDI input Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-01-09 20:35 ` [ 16/47] p54usb: add USB ID for T-Com Sinus 154 data II Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-01-09 20:35 ` [ 17/47] p54usb: add USBIDs for two more p54usb devices Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-01-09 20:35 ` [ 18/47] usb: gadget: phonet: free requests in pn_bind()s error path Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-01-09 20:35 ` [ 19/47] ACPI / scan: Do not use dummy HID for system bus ACPI nodes Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-01-09 20:35 ` [ 20/47] NFS: avoid NULL dereference in nfs_destroy_server Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-01-09 20:35 ` [ 21/47] NFS: Fix calls to drop_nlink() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-01-09 20:35 ` [ 22/47] nfsd4: fix oops on unusual readlike compound Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-01-09 20:35 ` [ 23/47] nfs: fix null checking in nfs_get_option_str() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-01-09 20:35 ` [ 24/47] Input: walkera0701 - fix crash on startup Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-01-09 20:35 ` [ 25/47] genirq: Always force thread affinity Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-01-09 20:35 ` [ 26/47] xhci: Add Lynx Point LP to list of Intel switchable hosts Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-01-09 20:35 ` [ 27/47] cgroup: remove incorrect dget/dput() pair in cgroup_create_dir() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-01-09 20:35 ` [ 28/47] x86, amd: Disable way access filter on Piledriver CPUs Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-01-09 20:35 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2013-01-09 20:35 ` [ 30/47] sparc: huge_ptep_set_* functions need to call set_huge_pte_at() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-01-09 20:35 ` [ 31/47] net: sched: integer overflow fix Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-01-09 20:35 ` [ 32/47] tcp: implement RFC 5961 3.2 Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-01-09 20:35 ` [ 33/47] tcp: implement RFC 5961 4.2 Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-01-09 20:35 ` [ 34/47] tcp: refine SYN handling in tcp_validate_incoming Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-01-09 20:35 ` [ 35/47] tcp: tcp_replace_ts_recent() should not be called from tcp_validate_incoming() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-01-09 20:35 ` [ 36/47] tcp: RFC 5961 5.2 Blind Data Injection Attack Mitigation Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-01-09 20:35 ` [ 37/47] ARM: mm: use pteval_t to represent page protection values Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-01-09 20:35 ` [ 38/47] ARM: missing ->mmap_sem around find_vma() in swp_emulate.c Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-01-09 20:35 ` [ 39/47] solos-pci: fix double-free of TX skb in DMA mode Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-01-09 20:35 ` [ 40/47] PCI: Reduce Ricoh 0xe822 SD card reader base clock frequency to 50MHz Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-01-09 20:35 ` [ 41/47] Bluetooth: ath3k: Add support for VAIO VPCEH [0489:e027] Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-01-09 20:35 ` [ 42/47] Bluetooth: cancel power_on work when unregistering the device Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-01-09 20:35 ` [ 43/47] CRIS: fix I/O macros Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-01-09 20:35 ` [ 44/47] drivers/rtc/rtc-vt8500.c: correct handling of CR_24H bitfield Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-01-09 20:35 ` [ 45/47] drivers/rtc/rtc-vt8500.c: fix handling of data passed in struct rtc_time Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-01-09 20:35 ` [ 46/47] mm: limit mmu_gather batching to fix soft lockups on !CONFIG_PREEMPT Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-01-09 20:35 ` [ 47/47] can: Do not call dev_put if restart timer is running upon close Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-01-10 18:01 ` [ 00/47] 3.0.58-stable review Shuah Khan
2013-01-11 14:47 ` Satoru Takeuchi

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