When kernel is compiled without preemption, the eval_map_work_func() (which calls trace_event_eval_update()) will not be preempted up to its complete execution. This can actually cause a problem since if another CPU call stop_machine(), the call will have to wait for the eval_map_work_func() function to finish executing in the workqueue before being able to be scheduled. This problem was observe on a SMP system at boot time, when the CPU calling the initcalls executed clocksource_done_booting() which in the end calls stop_machine(). We observed a 1 second delay because one CPU was executing eval_map_work_func() and was not preempted by the stop_machine() task.
Adding a call to schedule() in trace_event_eval_update() allows to let other tasks to be executed and thus continue working asynchronously like before without blocking any pending task at boot time. Signed-off-by: Clément Léger <cle...@rivosinc.com> --- kernel/trace/trace_events.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events.c b/kernel/trace/trace_events.c index 91951d038ba4..dbdf57a081c0 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/trace_events.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events.c @@ -2770,6 +2770,7 @@ void trace_event_eval_update(struct trace_eval_map **map, int len) update_event_fields(call, map[i]); } } + schedule(); } up_write(&trace_event_sem); } -- 2.40.1