From: Greg KH <gre...@linuxfoundation.org>
3.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
------------------
From: Steven Rostedt <rost...@goodmis.org>
commit 2d773aa4810d4a612d1c879faacc38594cc3f841 upstream.
As I was adding code that affects all archs, I started testing function
tracer against PPC64 and found that it currently locks up with 3.4
kernel. I figured it was due to tracing a function that shouldn't be, so
I went through the following process to bisect to find the culprit:
cat /debug/tracing/available_filter_functions > t
num=`wc -l t`
sed -ne "1,${num}p" t > t1
let num=num+1
sed -ne "${num},$p" t > t2
cat t1 > /debug/tracing/set_ftrace_filter
echo function /debug/tracing/current_tracer
<failed? bisect t1, if not bisect t2>
It finally came down to this function: restore_interrupts()
I'm not sure why this locks up the system. It just seems to prevent
scheduling from occurring. Interrupts seem to still work, as I can ping
the box. But all user processes freeze.
When restore_interrupts() is not traced, function tracing works fine.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rost...@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <b...@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org>
---
arch/powerpc/kernel/irq.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/irq.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/irq.c
@@ -277,7 +277,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(arch_local_irq_restore);
* NOTE: This is called with interrupts hard disabled but not marked
* as such in paca->irq_happened, so we need to resync this.
*/
-void restore_interrupts(void)
+void notrace restore_interrupts(void)
{
if (irqs_disabled()) {
local_paca->irq_happened |= PACA_IRQ_HARD_DIS;
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