The hooks in the module code for the function tracer must be called
before any of that module code runs. The function tracer hooks
modify the module (replacing calls to mcount to nops). If the code
is executed while the change occurs, then the CPU can take a GPF.
To handle the above with a bit of paranoia, I originally implemented
the hooks as calls directly from the module code.
After examining the notifier calls, it looks as though the start up
notify is called before any of the module's code is executed. This makes
the use of the notify safe with ftrace.
Only the startup notify is required to be "safe". The shutdown simply
removes the entries from the ftrace function list, and does not modify
any code.
This change has another benefit. It removes a issue with a reverse dependency
in the mutexes of ftrace_lock and module_mutex.
[ Impact: fix lock dependency bug, cleanup ]
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
When current tracer is set to blk tracer, TRACE_ITER_CONTEXT_INFO is
unset, but actually context-info is printed:
pdflush-431 [000] 821.181576: 8,0 P N [pdflush]
And then if we enable TRACE_ITER_CONTEXT_INFO:
# echo context-info > trace_options
We'll see context-info printed twice. What's worse, when we use blk
tracer and trace events at the same time, we'll see no context-info
for trace events at all:
jbd2_commit_logging: dev dm-0:8 transaction 333227
jbd2_end_commit: dev dm-0:8 transaction 333227 head 332814
rm-25433 [001] 9578.307485: 8,18 m N cfq25433 slice expired t=0
rm-25433 [001] 9578.307486: 8,18 m N cfq25433 put_queue
This patch adds blk_tracer->set_flags(), and context-info flag is unset
only when we set the output to classic mode.
Note after this patch, one should unset context-info explicitly if he
wants to get binary output that can be parsed by blkparse:
# echo nocontext-info > trace_options
# echo bin > trace_options
# echo blk > current_tracer
# cat trace_pipe | blkparse -i -
Reported-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <49E54E60.50408@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The previous patch adds support to trace a single partition for
relay+ioctl blktrace, and this patch is for ftrace plugin blktrace:
# echo 1 > /sys/block/sda/sda7/enable
# cat start_lba
102398373
# cat end_lba
102703545
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Shawn Du <duyuyang@gmail.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
LKML-Reference: <49E42646.4060608@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Though one can specify '-d /dev/sda1' when using blktrace, it still
traces the whole sda.
To support per-partition tracing, when we start tracing, we initialize
bt->start_lba and bt->end_lba to the start and end sector of that
partition.
Note some actions are per device, thus we don't filter 0-sector events.
The original patch and discussion can be found here:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-btrace&m=122949374214540&w=2
Signed-off-by: Shawn Du <duyuyang@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
LKML-Reference: <49E42620.4050701@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This patch adds a sample to the samples directory on how to create
and use TRACE_EVENT trace points.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Impact: clean up
Create a sub directory in include/trace called events to keep the
trace point headers in their own separate directory. Only headers that
declare trace points should be defined in this directory.
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: Zhao Lei <zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Impact: fix compile error of lockdep event tracer
Ingo Molnar pointed out that the system name for the lockdep tracer was "lock"
which is used to include the event trace file name. It should be "lockdep"
Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Impact: compile fix
The addition of TRACE_EVENT for modules breaks the build for when
modules are disabled. This code fixes that.
Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Impact: allow modules to add TRACE_EVENTS on load
This patch adds the final hooks to allow modules to use the TRACE_EVENT
macro. A notifier and a data structure are used to link the TRACE_EVENTs
defined in the module to connect them with the ftrace event tracing system.
It also adds the necessary automated clean ups to the trace events when a
module is removed.
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Impact: let modules add trace events
The trace event code requires some functions to be exported to allow
modules to use TRACE_EVENT. This patch adds EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL to the
necessary functions.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Impact: makes it possible to define events in modules
The events are created by reading down the section that they are linked
in by the macros. But this is not scalable to modules. This patch converts
the manipulations to use a global link list, and on boot up it adds
the items in the section to the list.
This change will allow modules to add their tracing events to the list as
well.
Note, this change alone does not permit modules to use the TRACE_EVENT macros,
but the change is needed for them to eventually do so.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
This patch moves the ftrace creation into include/trace/ftrace.h and
simplifies the work of developers in adding new tracepoints.
Just the act of creating the trace points in include/trace and including
define_trace.h will create the events in the debugfs/tracing/events
directory.
This patch removes the need of include/trace/trace_events.h
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
In preparation to allowing trace events to happen in modules, we need
to move some of the local declarations in the kernel/trace directory
into include/linux.
This patch simply moves the declarations and performs no context changes.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
In the process to make TRACE_EVENT macro work for modules, the trace_seq
operations must be available for core kernel code.
These operations are quite useful and can be used for other implementations.
The main idea is that we create a trace_seq handle that acts very much
like the seq_file handle.
struct trace_seq *s = kmalloc(sizeof(*s, GFP_KERNEL);
trace_seq_init(s);
trace_seq_printf(s, "some data %d\n", variable);
printk("%s", s->buffer);
The main use is to allow a top level function call several other functions
that may store printf like data into the buffer. Then at the end, the top
level function can process all the data with any method it would like to.
It could be passed to userspace, output via printk or even use seq_file:
trace_seq_to_user(s, ubuf, cnt);
seq_puts(m, s->buffer);
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
This patch lowers the number of places a developer must modify to add
new tracepoints. The current method to add a new tracepoint
into an existing system is to write the trace point macro in the
trace header with one of the macros TRACE_EVENT, TRACE_FORMAT or
DECLARE_TRACE, then they must add the same named item into the C file
with the macro DEFINE_TRACE(name) and then add the trace point.
This change cuts out the needing to add the DEFINE_TRACE(name).
Every file that uses the tracepoint must still include the trace/<type>.h
file, but the one C file must also add a define before the including
of that file.
#define CREATE_TRACE_POINTS
#include <trace/mytrace.h>
This will cause the trace/mytrace.h file to also produce the C code
necessary to implement the trace point.
Note, if more than one trace/<type>.h is used to create the C code
it is best to list them all together.
#define CREATE_TRACE_POINTS
#include <trace/foo.h>
#include <trace/bar.h>
#include <trace/fido.h>
Thanks to Mathieu Desnoyers and Christoph Hellwig for coming up with
the cleaner solution of the define above the includes over my first
design to have the C code include a "special" header.
This patch converts sched, irq and lockdep and skb to use this new
method.
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: Zhao Lei <zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Impact: clean up
Neil Horman (et. al.) criticized the way the trace events were broken up
into two files. The reason for that was that ftrace needed to separate out
the declarations from where the #include <linux/tracepoint.h> was used.
It then dawned on me that the tracepoint.h header only needs to define the
TRACE_EVENT macro if it is not already defined.
The solution is simply to test if TRACE_EVENT is defined, and if it is not
then the linux/tracepoint.h header can define it. This change consolidates
all the <traces>.h and <traces>_event_types.h into the <traces>.h file.
Reported-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Reported-by: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
Reported-by: Jiaying Zhang <jiayingz@google.com>
Cc: Zhaolei <zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
This patch allows event filters to be safely removed or switched
on-the-fly while avoiding the use of rcu or the suspension of tracing of
previous versions.
It does it by adding a new filter_pred_none() predicate function which
does nothing and by never deallocating either the predicates or any of
the filter_pred members used in matching; the predicate lists are
allocated and initialized during ftrace_event_calls initialization.
Whenever a filter is removed or replaced, the filter_pred_* functions
currently in use by the affected ftrace_event_call are immediately
switched over to to the filter_pred_none() function, while the rest of
the filter_pred members are left intact, allowing any currently
executing filter_pred_* functions to finish up, using the values they're
currently using.
In the case of filter replacement, the new predicate values are copied
into the old predicates after the above step, and the filter_pred_none()
functions are replaced by the filter_pred_* functions for the new
filter. In this case, it is possible though very unlikely that a
previous filter_pred_* is still running even after the
filter_pred_none() switch and the switch to the new filter_pred_*. In
that case, however, because nothing has been deallocated in the
filter_pred, the worst that can happen is that the old filter_pred_*
function sees the new values and as a result produces either a false
positive or a false negative, depending on the values it finds.
So one downside to this method is that rarely, it can produce a bad
match during the filter switch, but it should be possible to live with
that, IMHO.
The other downside is that at least in this patch the predicate lists
are always pre-allocated, taking up memory from the start. They could
probably be allocated on first-use, and de-allocated when tracing is
completely stopped - if this patch makes sense, I could create another
one to do that later on.
Oh, and it also places a restriction on the size of __arrays in events,
currently set to 128, since they can't be larger than the now embedded
str_val arrays in the filter_pred struct.
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com
LKML-Reference: <1239610670.6660.49.camel@tropicana>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This patch changes filter_check_discard() to make use of the new
ring_buffer_discard_commit() function and modifies the current users to
call the old commit function in the non-discard case.
It also introduces a version of filter_check_discard() that uses the
global trace buffer (filter_current_check_discard()) for those cases.
v2 changes:
- fix compile error noticed by Ingo Molnar
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
LKML-Reference: <1239178554.10295.36.camel@tropicana>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Add a new config option, CONFIG_EVENT_TRACING that gets selected
when CONFIG_TRACING is selected and adds everything needed by the stuff
in trace_export - basically all the event tracing support needed by e.g.
bprint, minus the actual events, which are only included if
CONFIG_EVENT_TRACER is selected.
So CONFIG_EVENT_TRACER can be used to turn on or off the generated events
(what I think of as the 'event tracer'), while CONFIG_EVENT_TRACING turns
on or off the base event tracing support used by both the event tracer and
the other things such as bprint that can't be configured out.
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
LKML-Reference: <1239178441.10295.34.camel@tropicana>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The ring_buffer_discard_commit makes better usage of the ring_buffer
when an event has been discarded. It tries to remove it completely if
possible.
This patch converts the trace event filtering to use
ring_buffer_discard_commit instead of the ring_buffer_event_discard.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The ring_buffer_discard_commit is similar to ring_buffer_event_discard
but it can only be done on an event that has yet to be commited.
Unpredictable results can happen otherwise.
The main difference between ring_buffer_discard_commit and
ring_buffer_event_discard is that ring_buffer_discard_commit will try
to free the data in the ring buffer if nothing has addded data
after the reserved event. If something did, then it acts almost the
same as ring_buffer_event_discard followed by a
ring_buffer_unlock_commit.
Note, either ring_buffer_commit_discard and ring_buffer_unlock_commit
can be called on an event, not both.
This commit also exports both discard functions to be usable by
GPL modules.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Frederic Weisbecker suggested that the trace_special event shouldn't be
filterable; this patch adds a TRACE_EVENT_FORMAT_NOFILTER event macro
that allows an event format to be exported without having a filter
attached, and removes filtering from the trace_special event.
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This patch adds run-time field descriptions to all the event formats
exported using TRACE_EVENT_FORMAT. It also hooks up all the tracers
that use them (i.e. the tracers in the 'ftrace subsystem') so they can
also have their output filtered by the event-filtering mechanism.
When I was testing this, there were a couple of things that fooled me
into thinking the filters weren't working, when actually they were -
I'll mention them here so others don't make the same mistakes (and file
bug reports. ;-)
One is that some of the tracers trace multiple events e.g. the
sched_switch tracer uses the context_switch and wakeup events, and if
you don't set filters on all of the traced events, the unfiltered output
from the events without filters on them can make it look like the
filtering as a whole isn't working properly, when actually it is doing
what it was asked to do - it just wasn't asked to do the right thing.
The other is that for the really high-volume tracers e.g. the function
tracer, the volume of filtered events can be so high that it pushes the
unfiltered events out of the ring buffer before they can be read so e.g.
cat'ing the trace file repeatedly shows either no output, or once in
awhile some output but that isn't there the next time you read the
trace, which isn't what you normally expect when reading the trace file.
If you read from the trace_pipe file though, you can catch them before
they disappear.
Changes from v1:
As suggested by Frederic Weisbecker:
- get rid of externs in functions
- added unlikely() to filter_check_discard()
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild-fixes:
docbook: make cleandocs
kbuild: fix spurious initramfs rebuild
Documentation: explain the difference between __bitwise and __bitwise__
kbuild: make it possible for the linker to discard local symbols from vmlinux
kbuild: remove pointless strdup() on arguments passed to new_module() in modpost
kbuild: fix a few typos in top-level Makefile
kbuild: introduce destination-y for exported headers
kbuild: use git svn instead of git-svn in setlocalversion
kconfig: fix update-po-config to accect backslash in input
kbuild: fix option processing for -I in headerdep
There is a race between resume from hibernation and the asynchronous
scanning of SCSI devices and to prevent it from happening we need to
call scsi_complete_async_scans() during resume from hibernation.
In addition, if the resume from hibernation is userland-driven, it's
better to wait for all device probes in the kernel to complete before
attempting to open the resume device.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86: add linux kernel support for YMM state
x86: fix wrong section of pat_disable & make it static
x86: Fix section mismatches in mpparse
x86: fix set_fixmap to use phys_addr_t
x86: Document get_user_pages_fast()
x86, intr-remap: fix eoi for interrupt remapping without x2apic
* 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
tracing/filters: return proper error code when writing filter file
tracing/filters: allow user input integer to be oct or hex
tracing/filters: fix NULL pointer dereference
tracing/filters: NIL-terminate user input filter
ftrace: Output REC->var instead of __entry->var for trace format
Make __stringify support variable argument macros too
tracing: fix document references
tracing: fix splice return too large
tracing: update file->f_pos when splice(2) it
tracing: allocate page when needed
tracing: disable seeking for trace_pipe_raw
* 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
lockdep: continue lock debugging despite some taints
lockdep: warn about lockdep disabling after kernel taint
Atttempting to rid us of the problematic work_on_cpu(). Just use
smp_call_fuction_single() here.
This repairs a 10% sysbench(oltp)+mysql regression which Mike reported,
due to
commit 6b44003e5c
Author: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Thu Apr 9 09:50:37 2009 -0600
work_on_cpu(): rewrite it to create a kernel thread on demand
It seems that the kernel calls these acpi-cpufreq functions at a quite
high frequency.
Valdis Kletnieks also reports that this causes 70-90 forks per second on
his hardware.
Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Cc: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Cc: Zhao Yakui <yakui.zhao@intel.com>
Acked-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: "Zhang, Yanmin" <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
[ Made it use smp_call_function_many() instead of looping over cpu's
with smp_call_function_single() - Linus ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* 'i2c-for-linus' of git://jdelvare.pck.nerim.net/jdelvare-2.6:
i2c: Let new-style drivers implement attach_adapter
i2c: Fix sparse warnings for I2C_BOARD_INFO()
i2c-voodoo3: Deprecate in favor of tdfxfb
i2c-algo-pca: Fix use of uninitialized variable in debug message
When POSIX capabilities were introduced during the 2.1 Linux
cycle, the fs mask, which represents the capabilities which having
fsuid==0 is supposed to grant, did not include CAP_MKNOD and
CAP_LINUX_IMMUTABLE. However, before capabilities the privilege
to call these did in fact depend upon fsuid==0.
This patch introduces those capabilities into the fsmask,
restoring the old behavior.
See the thread starting at http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/3/11/157 for
reference.
Note that if this fix is deemed valid, then earlier kernel versions (2.4
and 2.2) ought to be fixed too.
Changelog:
[Mar 23] Actually delete old CAP_FS_SET definition...
[Mar 20] Updated against J. Bruce Fields's patch
Reported-by: Igor Zhbanov <izh1979@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Cc: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
percpu: unbreak alpha percpu
mutex: have non-spinning mutexes on s390 by default
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wim/linux-2.6-watchdog:
[WATCHDOG] omap_wdt.c: move probe function to .devinit.text
[WATCHDOG] ks8695_wdt.c: move probe function to .devinit.text
[WATCHDOG] at91rm9200_wdt.c: move probe function to .devinit.text
[WATCHDOG] remove ARM26 sections
[WATCHDOG] orion5x_wdt: Add shutdown callback, use watchdog ping function
[WATCHDOG] i6300esb.c: Restructure initialization of the device
[WATCHDOG] i6300esb.c: Fix the GETSTATUS and GETBOOTSTATUS ioctls.
[WATCHDOG] i6300esb.c: Cleanup
While it isn't the way the standard device binding model works, it is
OK for new-style drivers to implement attach_adapter. It may help
convert the renaming legacy drivers to new style drivers faster.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Cc: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Since the first argument to I2C_BOARD_INFO() must be a string constant,
there is no need to parenthesise it, and adding parentheses results in
an invalid initialiser for char[]. gcc obviously accepts this syntax as
an extension, but sparse complains, e.g.:
drivers/net/sfc/boards.c:173:2: warning: array initialized from parenthesized string constant
Therefore, remove the parentheses.
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Support for I2C/DDC was recently added to the tdfxfb driver, which
means that the i2c-voodoo3 driver can be deprecated.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Cc: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@wp.pl>
A recent change broke debugging of pca_xfer(), fix it.
Reported-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Acked-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de>
Also remove the now-useless debug printouts which are supposed to
tell us when the scan starts and ends.
Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
Along with MCP65, MCP67 and 73 also don't set CAP_NCQ. Force it.
Reported by zaceni@yandex.ru on bko#13014 and confirmed by Peer Chen.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-by: NightFox <zaceni2@yandex.ru>
Cc: Peer Chen <pchen@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
Impact: broaden lockdep checks
Lockdep is disabled after any kernel taints. This might be convenient
to ignore bad locking issues which sources come from outside the kernel
tree. Nevertheless, it might be a frustrating experience for the
staging developers or those who experience a warning but are focused
on another things that require lockdep.
The v2 of this patch simply don't disable anymore lockdep in case
of TAINT_CRAP and TAINT_WARN events.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: LTP <ltp-list@lists.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
LKML-Reference: <1239412638-6739-2-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: provide useful missing info for developers
Kernel taint can occur in several situations such as warnings,
load of prorietary or staging modules, bad page, etc...
But when such taint happens, a developer might still be working on
the kernel, expecting that lockdep is still enabled. But a taint
disables lockdep without ever warning about it.
Such a kernel behaviour doesn't really help for kernel development.
This patch adds this missing warning.
Since the taint is done most of the time after the main message that
explain the real source issue, it seems safe to warn about it inside
add_taint() so that it appears at last, without hurting the main
information.
v2: Use a generic helper to disable lockdep instead of an
open coded xchg().
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <1239412638-6739-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
