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authorSteven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>2017-09-21 13:00:21 -0400
committerSteven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>2017-09-23 16:50:20 -0400
commit15516c89acce948debc4c598e03c3fee53045797 (patch)
tree996cec0ae5b0c7dc3c3c98829308abec41fb3ae0 /kernel
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tracing: Remove RCU work arounds from stack tracer
Currently the stack tracer calls rcu_irq_enter() to make sure RCU is watching when it records a stack trace. But if the stack tracer is triggered while tracing inside of a rcu_irq_enter(), calling rcu_irq_enter() unconditionally can be problematic. The reason for having rcu_irq_enter() in the first place has been fixed from within the saving of the stack trace code, and there's no reason for doing it in the stack tracer itself. Just remove it. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 0be964be0 ("module: Sanitize RCU usage and locking") Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Suggested-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/trace/trace_stack.c15
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_stack.c b/kernel/trace/trace_stack.c
index a4df67cbc711..49cb41412eec 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_stack.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_stack.c
@@ -96,23 +96,9 @@ check_stack(unsigned long ip, unsigned long *stack)
if (in_nmi())
return;
- /*
- * There's a slight chance that we are tracing inside the
- * RCU infrastructure, and rcu_irq_enter() will not work
- * as expected.
- */
- if (unlikely(rcu_irq_enter_disabled()))
- return;
-
local_irq_save(flags);
arch_spin_lock(&stack_trace_max_lock);
- /*
- * RCU may not be watching, make it see us.
- * The stack trace code uses rcu_sched.
- */
- rcu_irq_enter();
-
/* In case another CPU set the tracer_frame on us */
if (unlikely(!frame_size))
this_size -= tracer_frame;
@@ -205,7 +191,6 @@ check_stack(unsigned long ip, unsigned long *stack)
}
out:
- rcu_irq_exit();
arch_spin_unlock(&stack_trace_max_lock);
local_irq_restore(flags);
}