From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751210AbaCFFcf (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Mar 2014 00:32:35 -0500 Received: from tama50.ecl.ntt.co.jp ([129.60.39.147]:37816 "EHLO tama50.ecl.ntt.co.jp" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750790AbaCFFce (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Mar 2014 00:32:34 -0500 Message-ID: <1394083528.4524.3.camel@nexus> Subject: [PATCH] sched/clock: prevent tracing recursion in sched_clock_cpu() From: Fernando Luis =?ISO-8859-1?Q?V=E1zquez?= Cao To: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , Ingo Molnar , StevenRostedt , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2014 14:25:28 +0900 Organization: NTT Open Source Software Center Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.8.5-2+b3 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-TM-AS-MML: No Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao Prevent tracing of preempt_disable/enable() in sched_clock_cpu(). When CONFIG_DEBUG_PREEMPT is enabled, preempt_disable/enable() are traced and this causes trace_clock() users (and probably others) to go into an infinite recursion. Systems with a stable sched_clock() are not affected. This problem is similar to that fixed by upstream commit 95ef1e52922 ("KVM guest: prevent tracing recursion with kvmclock"). Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Steven Rostedt Signed-off-by: Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao --- diff -urNp linux-3.14-rc5-orig/kernel/sched/clock.c linux-3.14-rc5/kernel/sched/clock.c --- linux-3.14-rc5-orig/kernel/sched/clock.c 2014-03-06 13:37:43.567720550 +0900 +++ linux-3.14-rc5/kernel/sched/clock.c 2014-03-06 13:41:56.937100949 +0900 @@ -301,14 +301,14 @@ u64 sched_clock_cpu(int cpu) if (unlikely(!sched_clock_running)) return 0ull; - preempt_disable(); + preempt_disable_notrace(); scd = cpu_sdc(cpu); if (cpu != smp_processor_id()) clock = sched_clock_remote(scd); else clock = sched_clock_local(scd); - preempt_enable(); + preempt_enable_notrace(); return clock; }