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2009-02-07ring-buffer: use generic version of in_nmiSteven Rostedt1-8/+0
Impact: clean up Now that a generic in_nmi is available, this patch removes the special code in the ring_buffer and implements the in_nmi generic version instead. With this change, I was also able to rename the "arch_ftrace_nmi_enter" back to "ftrace_nmi_enter" and remove the code from the ring buffer. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2009-02-07ring-buffer: add NMI protection for spinlocksSteven Rostedt1-1/+9
Impact: prevent deadlock in NMI The ring buffers are not yet totally lockless with writing to the buffer. When a writer crosses a page, it grabs a per cpu spinlock to protect against a reader. The spinlocks taken by a writer are not to protect against other writers, since a writer can only write to its own per cpu buffer. The spinlocks protect against readers that can touch any cpu buffer. The writers are made to be reentrant with the spinlocks disabling interrupts. The problem arises when an NMI writes to the buffer, and that write crosses a page boundary. If it grabs a spinlock, it can be racing with another writer (since disabling interrupts does not protect against NMIs) or with a reader on the same CPU. Luckily, most of the users are not reentrant and protects against this issue. But if a user of the ring buffer becomes reentrant (which is what the ring buffers do allow), if the NMI also writes to the ring buffer then we risk the chance of a deadlock. This patch moves the ftrace_nmi_enter called by nmi_enter() to the ring buffer code. It replaces the current ftrace_nmi_enter that is used by arch specific code to arch_ftrace_nmi_enter and updates the Kconfig to handle it. When an NMI is called, it will set a per cpu variable in the ring buffer code and will clear it when the NMI exits. If a write to the ring buffer crosses page boundaries inside an NMI, a trylock is used on the spin lock instead. If the spinlock fails to be acquired, then the entry is discarded. This bug appeared in the ftrace work in the RT tree, where event tracing is reentrant. This workaround solved the deadlocks that appeared there. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2008-11-26tracing/function-return-tracer: change the name into function-graph-tracerFrederic Weisbecker1-1/+1
Impact: cleanup This patch changes the name of the "return function tracer" into function-graph-tracer which is a more suitable name for a tracing which makes one able to retrieve the ordered call stack during the code flow. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-11tracing, x86: add low level support for ftrace return tracingFrederic Weisbecker1-1/+1
Impact: add infrastructure for function-return tracing Add low level support for ftrace return tracing. This plug-in stores return addresses on the thread_info structure of the current task. The index of the current return address is initialized when the task is the first one (init) and when a process forks (the child). It is not needed when a task does a sys_execve because after this syscall, it still needs to return on the kernel functions it called. Note that the code of return_to_handler has been suggested by Steven Rostedt as almost all of the ideas of improvements in this V3. For purpose of security, arch/x86/kernel/process_32.c is not traced because __switch_to() changes the current task during its execution. That could cause inconsistency in the stored return address of this function even if I didn't have any crash after testing with tracing on this function enabled. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-06ftrace: split out hardirq ftrace code into own headerSteven Rostedt1-0/+13
Impact: moving of function prototypes into own header file ftrace.h is too big of a file for hardirq.h, and some archs will fail to build because of the include dependencies not being met. This patch pulls out the required prototypes for hardirq.h into a smaller and safer ftrace_irq.h file. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>