From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>,
Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/5] tracing: Make sure RCU is watching before calling a stack trace
Date: Fri, 12 May 2017 11:50:03 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170512185003.GC3956@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170512143619.281db952@gandalf.local.home>
On Fri, May 12, 2017 at 02:36:19PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Fri, 12 May 2017 11:25:35 -0700
> "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> > On Fri, May 12, 2017 at 01:15:45PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > > From: "Steven Rostedt (VMware)" <rostedt@goodmis.org>
> > >
> > > As stack tracing now requires "rcu watching", force RCU to be watching when
> > > recording a stack trace.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
> >
> > Assuming that you never get to __trace_stack() if in an NMI handler,
> > this looks good to me!
> >
> > In contrast, if if __trace_stack() ever is called from an NMI handler,
> > invoking rcu_irq_enter() can be fatal.
>
> Then someone may die.
>
> OK, what's the case of running this in nmi? How does perf do it?
I have no idea. If it cannot happen, then it cannot happen and all
is well, RCU is happy, and I am happy. ;-)
> Do we just skip the check if it is in an nmi?
>
> if (!in_nmi()) {
> if (unlikely(rcu_irq_enter_disabled()))
> return;
> rcu_irq_enter();
> }
>
> __ftrace_trace_stack();
>
> if (!in_nmi())
> rcu_irq_exit();
>
> ?
If it -can- happen, bail out of the function without doing the
__ftrace_trace_stack()? Or does that just cause other problems further
down the road? Or BUG_ON(in_nmi())?
But again if it cannot happen, no problem and no need for extra code.
Thanx, Paul
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-05-12 18:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-05-12 17:15 [RFC][PATCH 0/5] perf/tracing/cpuhotplug: Fix locking order Steven Rostedt
2017-05-12 17:15 ` [RFC][PATCH 1/5] tracing: Make sure RCU is watching before calling a stack trace Steven Rostedt
2017-05-12 18:25 ` Paul E. McKenney
2017-05-12 18:36 ` Steven Rostedt
2017-05-12 18:50 ` Paul E. McKenney [this message]
2017-05-12 20:05 ` Steven Rostedt
2017-05-12 20:31 ` Paul E. McKenney
2017-05-17 16:46 ` Steven Rostedt
2017-05-12 17:15 ` [RFC][PATCH 2/5] cpu-hotplug: Allow get_online_cpus() to nest Steven Rostedt
2017-05-12 18:35 ` Paul E. McKenney
2017-05-12 18:40 ` Steven Rostedt
2017-05-12 18:52 ` Paul E. McKenney
2017-05-12 22:15 ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-05-13 0:23 ` Steven Rostedt
2017-05-12 17:15 ` [RFC][PATCH 3/5] kprobes: Take get_online_cpus() before taking jump_label_lock() Steven Rostedt
2017-05-12 18:39 ` Paul E. McKenney
2017-05-12 18:44 ` Steven Rostedt
2017-05-17 17:50 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2017-05-12 17:15 ` [RFC][PATCH 4/5] tracepoints: Grab get_online_cpus() before taking tracepoints_mutex Steven Rostedt
2017-05-12 17:15 ` [RFC][PATCH 5/5] perf: Grab event_mutex before taking get_online_cpus() Steven Rostedt
2017-05-12 18:13 ` [RFC][PATCH 0/5] perf/tracing/cpuhotplug: Fix locking order Paul E. McKenney
2017-05-12 19:49 ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-05-12 20:14 ` Steven Rostedt
2017-05-12 21:34 ` Steven Rostedt
2017-05-13 13:40 ` Paul E. McKenney
2017-05-15 9:03 ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-05-15 18:40 ` Paul E. McKenney
2017-05-16 8:19 ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-05-16 12:46 ` Paul E. McKenney
2017-05-16 14:27 ` Paul E. McKenney
2017-05-17 10:40 ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-05-17 14:55 ` Paul E. McKenney
2017-05-18 3:58 ` Paul E. McKenney
2017-05-15 19:06 ` Steven Rostedt
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