Re: perf/tracepoint: another fuzzer generated lockup

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Sun Nov 17 2013 - 04:43:47 EST


On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 04:53:59PM +0900, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
> Agreed.
> FYI, kprobes has a recursion detection counter and it is reported via
> debugfs/tracing/kprobe_profile :)

Perf also has a recursion counter (4 actually, not reported to
userspace), but the problem with the irq_work_exit thing is that its a
non-recursive event loop, so recursion checks don't actually work to
catch it.
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