linux/kernel/trace
Steven Rostedt 80a9b64e2c ring-buffer: Replace this_cpu_*() with __this_cpu_*()
It has come to my attention that this_cpu_read/write are horrible on
architectures other than x86. Worse yet, they actually disable
preemption or interrupts! This caused some unexpected tracing results
on ARM.

   101.356868: preempt_count_add <-ring_buffer_lock_reserve
   101.356870: preempt_count_sub <-ring_buffer_lock_reserve

The ring_buffer_lock_reserve has recursion protection that requires
accessing a per cpu variable. But since preempt_disable() is traced, it
too got traced while accessing the variable that is suppose to prevent
recursion like this.

The generic version of this_cpu_read() and write() are:

 #define this_cpu_generic_read(pcp)					\
 ({	typeof(pcp) ret__;						\
	preempt_disable();						\
	ret__ = *this_cpu_ptr(&(pcp));					\
	preempt_enable();						\
	ret__;								\
 })

 #define this_cpu_generic_to_op(pcp, val, op)				\
 do {									\
	unsigned long flags;						\
	raw_local_irq_save(flags);					\
	*__this_cpu_ptr(&(pcp)) op val;					\
	raw_local_irq_restore(flags);					\
 } while (0)

Which is unacceptable for locations that know they are within preempt
disabled or interrupt disabled locations.

Paul McKenney stated that __this_cpu_() versions produce much better code on
other architectures than this_cpu_() does, if we know that the call is done in
a preempt disabled location.

I also changed the recursive_unlock() to use two local variables instead
of accessing the per_cpu variable twice.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150317114411.GE3589@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150317104038.312e73d1@gandalf.local.home

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Reported-by: Uwe Kleine-Koenig <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Tested-by: Uwe Kleine-Koenig <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2015-03-25 08:56:49 -04:00
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blktrace.c Merge branch 'for-3.19/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block 2014-12-13 14:14:23 -08:00
ftrace.c ftrace: Fix ftrace enable ordering of sysctl ftrace_enabled 2015-03-09 10:55:34 -04:00
Kconfig tracing: Remove function_trace_stop and HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACE_MCOUNT_TEST 2014-07-18 13:58:12 -04:00
Makefile Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux 2015-02-11 17:42:32 -08:00
power-traces.c PM / sleep: export suspend_resume trace event 2015-01-30 02:10:41 +01:00
ring_buffer_benchmark.c trace: Use 64-bit timekeeping 2015-01-28 11:02:05 -05:00
ring_buffer.c ring-buffer: Replace this_cpu_*() with __this_cpu_*() 2015-03-25 08:56:49 -04:00
rpm-traces.c PM / Runtime: Introduce trace points for tracing rpm_* functions 2011-09-27 22:53:27 +02:00
trace_benchmark.c tracing: Only calculate stats of tracepoint benchmarks for 2^32 times 2014-06-06 00:41:38 -04:00
trace_benchmark.h tracing: Add tracepoint benchmark tracepoint 2014-05-29 22:49:54 -04:00
trace_branch.c tracing: Remove unneeded includes of debugfs.h and fs.h 2015-01-22 11:19:48 -05:00
trace_clock.c tracing: Fix wraparound problems in "uptime" trace clock 2014-07-21 09:56:12 -04:00
trace_entries.h tracing: Add trace_puts() for even faster trace_printk() tracing 2013-03-15 00:35:55 -04:00
trace_event_perf.c perf: Avoid horrible stack usage 2015-01-14 15:11:45 +01:00
trace_events_filter_test.h tracing/filter: Add startup tests for events filter 2011-08-19 14:35:59 -04:00
trace_events_filter.c tracing: Allow NOT to filter AND and OR clauses 2014-12-03 10:00:27 -05:00
trace_events_trigger.c trace: Replace single-character seq_puts with seq_putc 2014-11-14 07:55:55 -05:00
trace_events.c The updates included in this pull request for ftrace are: 2015-02-12 08:37:41 -08:00
trace_export.c tracing: Remove unneeded includes of debugfs.h and fs.h 2015-01-22 11:19:48 -05:00
trace_functions_graph.c tracing: Use IS_ERR() check for return value of tracing_init_dentry() 2015-01-22 11:19:49 -05:00
trace_functions.c tracing/trivial: Fix typos and make an int into a bool 2014-11-20 10:05:36 -05:00
trace_irqsoff.c tracing: Remove unneeded includes of debugfs.h and fs.h 2015-01-22 11:19:48 -05:00
trace_kdb.c KGDB/KDB fixes and cleanups 2015-01-09 20:51:10 -08:00
trace_kprobe.c The updates included in this pull request for ftrace are: 2015-02-12 08:37:41 -08:00
trace_mmiotrace.c tracing: Do not check return values of trace_seq_p*() for mmio tracer 2014-11-19 15:25:44 -05:00
trace_nop.c tracing: Remove unneeded includes of debugfs.h and fs.h 2015-01-22 11:19:48 -05:00
trace_output.c tracing: Add array printing helper 2015-01-28 10:34:47 -05:00
trace_output.h tracing: Add trace_seq_has_overflowed() and trace_handle_return() 2014-11-19 15:25:39 -05:00
trace_printk.c tracing: Use IS_ERR() check for return value of tracing_init_dentry() 2015-01-22 11:19:49 -05:00
trace_probe.c tracing/probes: Do not use return value of trace_seq_printf() 2014-11-19 15:25:44 -05:00
trace_probe.h kprobes, ftrace: Use NOKPROBE_SYMBOL macro in ftrace 2014-04-24 10:26:39 +02:00
trace_sched_switch.c tracing: Remove unneeded includes of debugfs.h and fs.h 2015-01-22 11:19:48 -05:00
trace_sched_wakeup.c tracing: Remove unneeded includes of debugfs.h and fs.h 2015-01-22 11:19:48 -05:00
trace_selftest_dynamic.c ftrace: Add self-tests for multiple function trace users 2011-05-18 19:24:51 -04:00
trace_selftest.c Seems that Peter Zijlstra added a new check that is making old 2014-10-12 07:28:55 -04:00
trace_seq.c tracing: use %*pb[l] to print bitmaps including cpumasks and nodemasks 2015-02-13 21:21:37 -08:00
trace_stack.c tracing: Use IS_ERR() check for return value of tracing_init_dentry() 2015-01-22 11:19:49 -05:00
trace_stat.c tracing: Use IS_ERR() check for return value of tracing_init_dentry() 2015-01-22 11:19:49 -05:00
trace_stat.h
trace_syscalls.c perf: Avoid horrible stack usage 2015-01-14 15:11:45 +01:00
trace_uprobe.c The updates included in this pull request for ftrace are: 2015-02-12 08:37:41 -08:00
trace.c tracing: use %*pb[l] to print bitmaps including cpumasks and nodemasks 2015-02-13 21:21:37 -08:00
trace.h tracing: Make tracing_init_dentry_tr() static 2015-02-02 10:22:23 -05:00