kernel_optimize_test/init
Steven Rostedt (VMware) 43b5bdbf96 fgraph: Initialize tracing_graph_pause at task creation
commit 7e0a9220467dbcfdc5bc62825724f3e52e50ab31 upstream.

On some archs, the idle task can call into cpu_suspend(). The cpu_suspend()
will disable or pause function graph tracing, as there's some paths in
bringing down the CPU that can have issues with its return address being
modified. The task_struct structure has a "tracing_graph_pause" atomic
counter, that when set to something other than zero, the function graph
tracer will not modify the return address.

The problem is that the tracing_graph_pause counter is initialized when the
function graph tracer is enabled. This can corrupt the counter for the idle
task if it is suspended in these architectures.

   CPU 1				CPU 2
   -----				-----
  do_idle()
    cpu_suspend()
      pause_graph_tracing()
          task_struct->tracing_graph_pause++ (0 -> 1)

				start_graph_tracing()
				  for_each_online_cpu(cpu) {
				    ftrace_graph_init_idle_task(cpu)
				      task-struct->tracing_graph_pause = 0 (1 -> 0)

      unpause_graph_tracing()
          task_struct->tracing_graph_pause-- (0 -> -1)

The above should have gone from 1 to zero, and enabled function graph
tracing again. But instead, it is set to -1, which keeps it disabled.

There's no reason that the field tracing_graph_pause on the task_struct can
not be initialized at boot up.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 380c4b1411 ("tracing/function-graph-tracer: append the tracing_graph_flag")
Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=211339
Reported-by: pierre.gondois@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2021-02-10 09:29:16 +01:00
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calibrate.c
do_mounts_initrd.c Merge branch 'hch.init_path' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2020-08-07 09:40:34 -07:00
do_mounts_rd.c
do_mounts.c
do_mounts.h
init_task.c fgraph: Initialize tracing_graph_pause at task creation 2021-02-10 09:29:16 +01:00
initramfs.c initramfs: fix clang build failure 2020-12-11 14:02:14 -08:00
Kconfig Kbuild fixes for v5.10 (2nd) 2020-12-06 10:31:39 -08:00
main.c rcu-tasks: Move RCU-tasks initialization to before early_initcall() 2021-01-19 18:27:28 +01:00
Makefile
noinitramfs.c
version.c