From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-16.8 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,INCLUDES_CR_TRAILER,INCLUDES_PATCH, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,USER_AGENT_GIT autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B7D7C197BF for ; Sun, 6 Dec 2020 11:44:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF3CF2312F for ; Sun, 6 Dec 2020 11:44:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1729264AbgLFLn6 (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Dec 2020 06:43:58 -0500 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:43368 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1729213AbgLFLnw (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Dec 2020 06:43:52 -0500 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dkim=permerror (bad message/signature format) To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar , Vasily Averin , "Steven Rostedt (VMware)" Subject: [PATCH 5.4 38/39] tracing: Remove WARN_ON in start_thread() Date: Sun, 6 Dec 2020 12:17:42 +0100 Message-Id: <20201206111556.483147152@linuxfoundation.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.29.2 In-Reply-To: <20201206111554.677764505@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20201206111554.677764505@linuxfoundation.org> User-Agent: quilt/0.66 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Vasily Averin commit 310e3a4b5a4fc718a72201c1e4cf5c64ac6f5442 upstream. This patch reverts commit 978defee11a5 ("tracing: Do a WARN_ON() if start_thread() in hwlat is called when thread exists") .start hook can be legally called several times if according tracer is stopped screen window 1 [root@localhost ~]# echo 1 > /sys/kernel/tracing/events/kmem/kfree/enable [root@localhost ~]# echo 1 > /sys/kernel/tracing/options/pause-on-trace [root@localhost ~]# less -F /sys/kernel/tracing/trace screen window 2 [root@localhost ~]# cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/tracing_on 0 [root@localhost ~]# echo hwlat > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/current_tracer [root@localhost ~]# echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/tracing_on [root@localhost ~]# cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/tracing_on 0 [root@localhost ~]# echo 2 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/tracing_on triggers warning in dmesg: WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 1403 at kernel/trace/trace_hwlat.c:371 hwlat_tracer_start+0xc9/0xd0 Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/bd4d3e70-400d-9c82-7b73-a2d695e86b58@virtuozzo.com Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 978defee11a5 ("tracing: Do a WARN_ON() if start_thread() in hwlat is called when thread exists") Signed-off-by: Vasily Averin Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- kernel/trace/trace_hwlat.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/kernel/trace/trace_hwlat.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_hwlat.c @@ -355,7 +355,7 @@ static int start_kthread(struct trace_ar struct task_struct *kthread; int next_cpu; - if (WARN_ON(hwlat_kthread)) + if (hwlat_kthread) return 0; /* Just pick the first CPU on first iteration */