[PATCH 3.13.y-ckt 075/156] ftrace: Fix ftrace enable ordering of sysctl ftrace_enabled
Kamal Mostafa
kamal at canonical.com
Tue Apr 7 22:50:12 UTC 2015
3.13.11-ckt19 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: "Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)" <rostedt at goodmis.org>
commit 524a38682573b2e15ab6317ccfe50280441514be upstream.
Some archs (specifically PowerPC), are sensitive with the ordering of
the enabling of the calls to function tracing and setting of the
function to use to be traced.
That is, update_ftrace_function() sets what function the ftrace_caller
trampoline should call. Some archs require this to be set before
calling ftrace_run_update_code().
Another bug was discovered, that ftrace_startup_sysctl() called
ftrace_run_update_code() directly. If the function the ftrace_caller
trampoline changes, then it will not be updated. Instead a call
to ftrace_startup_enable() should be called because it tests to see
if the callback changed since the code was disabled, and will
tell the arch to update appropriately. Most archs do not need this
notification, but PowerPC does.
The problem could be seen by the following commands:
# echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/ftrace_enabled
# echo function > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/current_tracer
# echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/ftrace_enabled
# cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace
The trace will show that function tracing was not active.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt at goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
kernel/trace/ftrace.c | 6 +++---
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
index f119c05..c0ca762 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
@@ -2254,7 +2254,7 @@ static void ftrace_startup_sysctl(void)
command = FTRACE_UPDATE_CALLS;
if (ftrace_graph_active)
command |= FTRACE_START_FUNC_RET;
- ftrace_run_update_code(command);
+ ftrace_startup_enable(command);
}
}
@@ -4900,12 +4900,12 @@ ftrace_enable_sysctl(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
if (ftrace_enabled) {
- ftrace_startup_sysctl();
-
/* we are starting ftrace again */
if (ftrace_ops_list != &ftrace_list_end)
update_ftrace_function();
+ ftrace_startup_sysctl();
+
} else {
/* stopping ftrace calls (just send to ftrace_stub) */
ftrace_trace_function = ftrace_stub;
--
1.9.1
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