When I'm using ktap script to tracing all event tracepoints by relay transport, without this patch, the system will hang in few seconds.
I found the original patch discussion in 2007. http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=118544794717162&w=2 (In that mail thread, the patch didn't fix that problem, but it fix the problem I encountered now) Changed from v1: mod timer interval changed from jiffies+1 to HZ/10, as Ingo suggested. Original patch changelog from Ingo in 2007: Remove timer calls (!!!) from deep within the tracing infrastructure. This was totally bogus code that can cause lockups and worse. Poll the buffer every 2 jiffies for now. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mi...@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: "zhangwei(Jovi)" <jovi.zhang...@huawei.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rost...@goodmis.org> Cc: Jens Axboe <ax...@kernel.dk> Cc: Al Viro <v...@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eduma...@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org> --- kernel/relay.c | 14 +++++--------- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/relay.c b/kernel/relay.c index b91488b..87af4ce 100644 --- a/kernel/relay.c +++ b/kernel/relay.c @@ -339,6 +339,10 @@ static void wakeup_readers(unsigned long data) { struct rchan_buf *buf = (struct rchan_buf *)data; wake_up_interruptible(&buf->read_wait); + /* + * Stupid polling for now: + */ + mod_timer(&buf->timer, HZ / 10); } /** @@ -356,6 +360,7 @@ static void __relay_reset(struct rchan_buf *buf, unsigned int init) init_waitqueue_head(&buf->read_wait); kref_init(&buf->kref); setup_timer(&buf->timer, wakeup_readers, (unsigned long)buf); + mod_timer(&buf->timer, HZ / 10); } else del_timer_sync(&buf->timer); @@ -739,15 +744,6 @@ size_t relay_switch_subbuf(struct rchan_buf *buf, size_t length) else buf->early_bytes += buf->chan->subbuf_size - buf->padding[old_subbuf]; - smp_mb(); - if (waitqueue_active(&buf->read_wait)) - /* - * Calling wake_up_interruptible() from here - * will deadlock if we happen to be logging - * from the scheduler (trying to re-grab - * rq->lock), so defer it. - */ - mod_timer(&buf->timer, jiffies + 1); } old = buf->data; -- 1.7.9.7 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/