On Wed, Dec 11, 2024 at 7:53 PM Steven Rostedt <[email protected]> wrote:

> From: Steven Rostedt <[email protected]>
>
> A bug was discovered where the idle shadow stacks were not initialized
> for offline CPUs when starting function graph tracer, and when they came
> online they were not traced due to the missing shadow stack. To fix
> this, the idle task shadow stack initialization was moved to using the
> CPU hotplug callbacks. But it removed the initialization when the
> function graph was enabled. The problem here is that the hotplug
> callbacks are called when the CPUs come online, but the idle shadow
> stack initialization only happens if function graph is currently
> active. This caused the online CPUs to not get their shadow stack
> initialized.
>
> The idle shadow stack initialization still needs to be done when the
> function graph is registered, as they will not be allocated if function
> graph is not registered.
>
> Cc: [email protected]
> Fixes: 2c02f7375e65 ("fgraph: Use CPU hotplug mechanism to initialize idle 
> shadow stacks")
> Reported-by: Linus Walleij <[email protected]>
> Closes: 
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/CACRpkdaTBrHwRbbrphVy-=sedz6mssxhtkypotlrtq+dgga...@mail.gmail.com/
> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <[email protected]>

Yep that solves my issue and I can go on debugging my boot!
Tested-by: Linus Walleij <[email protected]>

Thanks for patching this up so quickly Stephen, you're the best.

Yours,
Linus Walleij

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