On Thu, 06 Mar 2014 14:25:28 +0900
Fernando Luis Vázquez Cao <[email protected]> wrote:

> From: Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao <[email protected]>
> 
> Prevent tracing of preempt_disable/enable() in sched_clock_cpu().
> When CONFIG_DEBUG_PREEMPT is enabled, preempt_disable/enable() are
> traced and this causes trace_clock() users (and probably others) to
> go into an infinite recursion. Systems with a stable sched_clock()
> are not affected.
> 
> This problem is similar to that fixed by upstream commit 95ef1e52922
> ("KVM guest: prevent tracing recursion with kvmclock").

Also similar to: 569d6557ab957.

Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <[email protected]>

-- Steve

> 
> Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
> Cc: Steven Rostedt <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao <[email protected]>
> ---
> 
> diff -urNp linux-3.14-rc5-orig/kernel/sched/clock.c 
> linux-3.14-rc5/kernel/sched/clock.c
> --- linux-3.14-rc5-orig/kernel/sched/clock.c  2014-03-06 13:37:43.567720550 
> +0900
> +++ linux-3.14-rc5/kernel/sched/clock.c       2014-03-06 13:41:56.937100949 
> +0900
> @@ -301,14 +301,14 @@ u64 sched_clock_cpu(int cpu)
>       if (unlikely(!sched_clock_running))
>               return 0ull;
>  
> -     preempt_disable();
> +     preempt_disable_notrace();
>       scd = cpu_sdc(cpu);
>  
>       if (cpu != smp_processor_id())
>               clock = sched_clock_remote(scd);
>       else
>               clock = sched_clock_local(scd);
> -     preempt_enable();
> +     preempt_enable_notrace();
>  
>       return clock;
>  }
> 

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