Re: Oops in trace_hardirqs_on (powerpc)

[Steven Rostedt]

On Wed, 2010-12-22 at 21:42 -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Sun, 2010-12-19 at 14:27 +0100, Jörg Sommer wrote:
> > Hi Steven,
> > 
> 
> > Did you've fixed this problem? The bug report is still marked as open.
> > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16573
> > 
> 
> I just posted a patch to that BZ. I have it here below too. Could you
> see if it fixes you problem. I only fixed the one place that you
> reported, it may need more fixes (and in that case a macro to do the
> work).
> 
> I hit the same bug on my ppc64 box, and have a fix for that, that I'll
> post to LKML tomorrow.


Here's my official:

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>

-- Steve

> -- Steve
> 
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_32.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_32.S
> index ed4aeb9..915cc03 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_32.S
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_32.S
> @@ -879,7 +879,18 @@ END_MMU_FTR_SECTION_IFSET(MMU_FTR_TYPE_47x)
>  	 */
>  	andi.	r10,r9,MSR_EE
>  	beq	1f
> +	/*
> +	 * Since the ftrace irqsoff latency trace checks CALLER_ADDR1,
> +	 * which is the stack frame here, we need to force a stack frame
> +	 * in case we came from user space.
> +	 */
> +	stwu	r1,-32(r1)
> +	mflr	r0
> +	stw	r0,4(r1)
> +	stwu	r1,-32(r1)
>  	bl	trace_hardirqs_on
> +	lwz	r1,0(r1)
> +	lwz	r1,0(r1)
>  	lwz	r9,_MSR(r1)
>  1:
>  #endif /* CONFIG_TRACE_IRQFLAGS */
> 


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