sched: Make preempt_schedule_context() function-tracing safe
authorFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Thu, 4 Jun 2015 15:39:07 +0000 (17:39 +0200)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Sun, 7 Jun 2015 13:57:41 +0000 (15:57 +0200)
commitbe690035df893385ceaac2323b29be1fb7f2a67f
treefc785d0609865e3311437826d01d8675d368a615
parentf407a8258610169cd8e975dba7f0b2824562014c
sched: Make preempt_schedule_context() function-tracing safe

Since function tracing disables preemption, it needs a safe preemption
point to use when preemption is re-enabled without worrying about tracing
recursion. Ie: to avoid tracing recursion, that preemption point can't
be traced (use of notrace qualifier) and it can't call any traceable
function before that preemption point disables preemption itself, which
disarms the recursion.

preempt_schedule() was fine until commit:

  b30f0e3ffedf ("sched/preempt: Optimize preemption operations on __schedule() callers")

because PREEMPT_ACTIVE (which has the property to disable preemption
and this disarm tracing preemption recursion) was set before calling
any further function.

But that commit introduced the use of preempt_count_add/sub() functions
to set PREEMPT_ACTIVE and because these functions are called before
preemption gets a chance to be disabled, we have a tracing recursion.

preempt_schedule_context() is one of the possible preemption functions
used by tracing. Its special purpose is to avoid tracing recursion
against context tracking. Lets enhance this function to become more
generally tracing safe by disabling preemption with raw accessors, such
that no function is called before preemption gets disabled and disarm
the tracing recursion.

This function is going to become the specific tracing-safe preemption
point in further commit.

Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1433432349-1021-2-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
kernel/sched/core.c
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