Recently we tried to make the preemptirqsoff tracer to use irqsoff tracepoint probes. However this causes issues as reported by Masami:
[2.271078] Testing tracer preemptirqsoff: .. no entries found ..FAILED! [2.381015] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1 at /home/mhiramat/ksrc/linux/kernel/ trace/trace.c:1512 run_tracer_selftest+0xf3/0x154 This is due to the tracepoint code increasing the preempt nesting count by calling an additional preempt_disable before calling into the preemptoff tracer which messes up the preempt_count() check in tracer_hardirqs_off. To fix this, make the irqsoff tracer probes balance the additional outer preempt_disable with a preempt_enable_notrace. The other way to fix this is to just use SRCU for all tracepoints. However we can't do that because we can't use NMIs from RCU context. Fixes: c3bc8fd637a9 ("tracing: Centralize preemptirq tracepoints and unify their usage") Fixes: e6753f23d961 ("tracepoint: Make rcuidle tracepoint callers use SRCU") Reported-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhira...@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <j...@joelfernandes.org> --- kernel/trace/trace_irqsoff.c | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+) diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_irqsoff.c b/kernel/trace/trace_irqsoff.c index 770cd30cda40..ffbf1505d5bc 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/trace_irqsoff.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_irqsoff.c @@ -603,14 +603,40 @@ static void irqsoff_tracer_stop(struct trace_array *tr) */ static void tracer_hardirqs_on(void *none, unsigned long a0, unsigned long a1) { + /* + * Tracepoint probes are expected to be called with preempt disabled, + * We don't care about being called with preempt disabled but we need + * to know in the future if that changes so we can remove the next + * preempt_enable. + */ + WARN_ON_ONCE(!preempt_count()); + + /* Tracepoint probes disable preemption atleast once, account for that */ + preempt_enable_notrace(); + if (!preempt_trace() && irq_trace()) stop_critical_timing(a0, a1); + + preempt_disable_notrace(); } static void tracer_hardirqs_off(void *none, unsigned long a0, unsigned long a1) { + /* + * Tracepoint probes are expected to be called with preempt disabled, + * We don't care about being called with preempt disabled but we need + * to know in the future if that changes so we can remove the next + * preempt_enable. + */ + WARN_ON_ONCE(!preempt_count()); + + /* Tracepoint probes disable preemption atleast once, account for that */ + preempt_enable_notrace(); + if (!preempt_trace() && irq_trace()) start_critical_timing(a0, a1); + + preempt_disable_notrace(); } static int irqsoff_tracer_init(struct trace_array *tr) -- 2.18.0.597.ga71716f1ad-goog