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    ftrace: Add internal recursive checks · b1cff0ad
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    Witold reported a reboot caused by the selftests of the dynamic function
    tracer. He sent me a config and I used ktest to do a config_bisect on it
    (as my config did not cause the crash). It pointed out that the problem
    config was CONFIG_PROVE_RCU.
    
    What happened was that if multiple callbacks are attached to the
    function tracer, we iterate a list of callbacks. Because the list is
    managed by synchronize_sched() and preempt_disable, the access to the
    pointers uses rcu_dereference_raw().
    
    When PROVE_RCU is enabled, the rcu_dereference_raw() calls some
    debugging functions, which happen to be traced. The tracing of the debug
    function would then call rcu_dereference_raw() which would then call the
    debug function and then... well you get the idea.
    
    I first wrote two different patches to solve this bug.
    
    1) add a __rcu_dereference_raw() that would not do any checks.
    2) add notrace to the offending debug functions.
    
    Both of these patches worked.
    
    Talking with Paul McKenney on IRC, he suggested to add recursion
    detection instead. This seemed to be a better solution, so I decided to
    implement it. As the task_struct already has a trace_recursion to detect
    recursion in the ring buffer, and that has a very small number it
    allows, I decided to use that same variable to add flags that can detect
    the recursion inside the infrastructure of the function tracer.
    
    I plan to change it so that the task struct bit can be checked in
    mcount, but as that requires changes to all archs, I will hold that off
    to the next merge window.
    
    Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
    Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
    Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
    Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
    Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1306348063.1465.116.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.comReported-by: default avatarWitold Baryluk <baryluk@smp.if.uj.edu.pl>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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