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fgraph: Initialize tracing_graph_pause at task creation

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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>
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Steven Rostedt (VMware) 2021-01-29 10:13:53 -05:00
parent 6ee1d745b7
commit 7e0a922046
2 changed files with 2 additions and 3 deletions
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init/init_task.c
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@ -198,7 +198,8 @@ struct task_struct init_task
.lockdep_recursion = 0,
#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER
.ret_stack = NULL,
.ret_stack = NULL,
.tracing_graph_pause = ATOMIC_INIT(0),
#endif
#if defined(CONFIG_TRACING) && defined(CONFIG_PREEMPTION)
.trace_recursion = 0,

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kernel/trace/fgraph.c
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@ -394,7 +394,6 @@ static int alloc_retstack_tasklist(struct ftrace_ret_stack **ret_stack_list)
}
if (t->ret_stack == NULL) {
atomic_set(&t->tracing_graph_pause, 0);
atomic_set(&t->trace_overrun, 0);
t->curr_ret_stack = -1;
t->curr_ret_depth = -1;
@ -489,7 +488,6 @@ static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct ftrace_ret_stack *, idle_ret_stack);
static void
graph_init_task(struct task_struct *t, struct ftrace_ret_stack *ret_stack)
{
atomic_set(&t->tracing_graph_pause, 0);
atomic_set(&t->trace_overrun, 0);
t->ftrace_timestamp = 0;
/* make curr_ret_stack visible before we add the ret_stack */