[GIT PULL] tracing fixes

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Sun Feb 14 2010 - 04:09:30 EST


Linus,

Please pull the latest tracing-fixes-for-linus git tree from:

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip.git tracing-fixes-for-linus

Thanks,

Ingo

------------------>
Heiko Carstens (1):
tracing/kprobes: Fix probe parsing

Lai Jiangshan (1):
tracing: Fix circular dead lock in stack trace


kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c | 2 +-
kernel/trace/trace_stack.c | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c b/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c
index 6ea90c0..50b1b82 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c
@@ -689,7 +689,7 @@ static int create_trace_probe(int argc, char **argv)
return -EINVAL;
}
/* an address specified */
- ret = strict_strtoul(&argv[0][2], 0, (unsigned long *)&addr);
+ ret = strict_strtoul(&argv[1][0], 0, (unsigned long *)&addr);
if (ret) {
pr_info("Failed to parse address.\n");
return ret;
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_stack.c b/kernel/trace/trace_stack.c
index 678a512..f4bc9b2 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_stack.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_stack.c
@@ -157,6 +157,7 @@ stack_max_size_write(struct file *filp, const char __user *ubuf,
unsigned long val, flags;
char buf[64];
int ret;
+ int cpu;

if (count >= sizeof(buf))
return -EINVAL;
@@ -171,9 +172,20 @@ stack_max_size_write(struct file *filp, const char __user *ubuf,
return ret;

local_irq_save(flags);
+
+ /*
+ * In case we trace inside arch_spin_lock() or after (NMI),
+ * we will cause circular lock, so we also need to increase
+ * the percpu trace_active here.
+ */
+ cpu = smp_processor_id();
+ per_cpu(trace_active, cpu)++;
+
arch_spin_lock(&max_stack_lock);
*ptr = val;
arch_spin_unlock(&max_stack_lock);
+
+ per_cpu(trace_active, cpu)--;
local_irq_restore(flags);

return count;
@@ -206,7 +218,13 @@ t_next(struct seq_file *m, void *v, loff_t *pos)

static void *t_start(struct seq_file *m, loff_t *pos)
{
+ int cpu;
+
local_irq_disable();
+
+ cpu = smp_processor_id();
+ per_cpu(trace_active, cpu)++;
+
arch_spin_lock(&max_stack_lock);

if (*pos == 0)
@@ -217,7 +235,13 @@ static void *t_start(struct seq_file *m, loff_t *pos)

static void t_stop(struct seq_file *m, void *p)
{
+ int cpu;
+
arch_spin_unlock(&max_stack_lock);
+
+ cpu = smp_processor_id();
+ per_cpu(trace_active, cpu)--;
+
local_irq_enable();
}

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