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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-02-19 09:14:22 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-02-19 09:14:22 -0800
commitf54b2fe4aef9aa74ddf2c856928c3e29f3371fe7 (patch)
tree8ca38b4fab7d2a9a5bfd26a2e640631d52894fe6
parent83ff1af9d330348d1a6685b0c06d33847cd72723 (diff)
parented4a2f374d71770796789ed559c35a36bab82f1a (diff)
Merge branch 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: tracing: limit the number of loops the ring buffer self test can make tracing: have function trace select kallsyms tracing: disable tracing while testing ring buffer tracing/function-graph-tracer: trace the idle tasks
-rw-r--r--kernel/trace/Kconfig2
-rw-r--r--kernel/trace/ftrace.c6
-rw-r--r--kernel/trace/trace_selftest.c19
3 files changed, 26 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/trace/Kconfig b/kernel/trace/Kconfig
index 58a93fbd68a..34e707e5ab8 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/Kconfig
+++ b/kernel/trace/Kconfig
@@ -52,6 +52,7 @@ config FUNCTION_TRACER
depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
select FRAME_POINTER
+ select KALLSYMS
select TRACING
select CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER
help
@@ -238,6 +239,7 @@ config STACK_TRACER
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
select FUNCTION_TRACER
select STACKTRACE
+ select KALLSYMS
help
This special tracer records the maximum stack footprint of the
kernel and displays it in debugfs/tracing/stack_trace.
diff --git a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
index 9a236ffe2aa..fdf913dfc7e 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
@@ -2033,7 +2033,7 @@ free:
static int start_graph_tracing(void)
{
struct ftrace_ret_stack **ret_stack_list;
- int ret;
+ int ret, cpu;
ret_stack_list = kmalloc(FTRACE_RETSTACK_ALLOC_SIZE *
sizeof(struct ftrace_ret_stack *),
@@ -2042,6 +2042,10 @@ static int start_graph_tracing(void)
if (!ret_stack_list)
return -ENOMEM;
+ /* The cpu_boot init_task->ret_stack will never be freed */
+ for_each_online_cpu(cpu)
+ ftrace_graph_init_task(idle_task(cpu));
+
do {
ret = alloc_retstack_tasklist(ret_stack_list);
} while (ret == -EAGAIN);
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_selftest.c b/kernel/trace/trace_selftest.c
index 88c8eb70f54..bc8e80a86bc 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_selftest.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_selftest.c
@@ -23,10 +23,20 @@ static int trace_test_buffer_cpu(struct trace_array *tr, int cpu)
{
struct ring_buffer_event *event;
struct trace_entry *entry;
+ unsigned int loops = 0;
while ((event = ring_buffer_consume(tr->buffer, cpu, NULL))) {
entry = ring_buffer_event_data(event);
+ /*
+ * The ring buffer is a size of trace_buf_size, if
+ * we loop more than the size, there's something wrong
+ * with the ring buffer.
+ */
+ if (loops++ > trace_buf_size) {
+ printk(KERN_CONT ".. bad ring buffer ");
+ goto failed;
+ }
if (!trace_valid_entry(entry)) {
printk(KERN_CONT ".. invalid entry %d ",
entry->type);
@@ -57,11 +67,20 @@ static int trace_test_buffer(struct trace_array *tr, unsigned long *count)
cnt = ring_buffer_entries(tr->buffer);
+ /*
+ * The trace_test_buffer_cpu runs a while loop to consume all data.
+ * If the calling tracer is broken, and is constantly filling
+ * the buffer, this will run forever, and hard lock the box.
+ * We disable the ring buffer while we do this test to prevent
+ * a hard lock up.
+ */
+ tracing_off();
for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) {
ret = trace_test_buffer_cpu(tr, cpu);
if (ret)
break;
}
+ tracing_on();
__raw_spin_unlock(&ftrace_max_lock);
local_irq_restore(flags);