diff options
| author | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-02-19 10:16:45 +0100 |
|---|---|---|
| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-02-19 10:16:45 +0100 |
| commit | ed4a2f374d71770796789ed559c35a36bab82f1a (patch) | |
| tree | ff0f2bd4b3f6903ad563d16c47d0bbb15603b2dd | |
| parent | 5b058bcde961bf28678a70e44c079107313543b6 (diff) | |
| parent | 4b3e3d228429c75d398f1aa24532e468d3220c49 (diff) | |
Merge branch 'tip/tracing/urgent' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace into tracing/urgent
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/trace/Kconfig | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/trace/trace_selftest.c | 19 |
2 files changed, 21 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/trace/Kconfig b/kernel/trace/Kconfig index 58a93fbd68aa..34e707e5ab87 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/Kconfig +++ b/kernel/trace/Kconfig @@ -52,6 +52,7 @@ config FUNCTION_TRACER depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER depends on DEBUG_KERNEL select FRAME_POINTER + select KALLSYMS select TRACING select CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER help @@ -238,6 +239,7 @@ config STACK_TRACER depends on DEBUG_KERNEL select FUNCTION_TRACER select STACKTRACE + select KALLSYMS help This special tracer records the maximum stack footprint of the kernel and displays it in debugfs/tracing/stack_trace. diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_selftest.c b/kernel/trace/trace_selftest.c index 88c8eb70f54a..bc8e80a86bca 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/trace_selftest.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_selftest.c @@ -23,10 +23,20 @@ static int trace_test_buffer_cpu(struct trace_array *tr, int cpu) { struct ring_buffer_event *event; struct trace_entry *entry; + unsigned int loops = 0; while ((event = ring_buffer_consume(tr->buffer, cpu, NULL))) { entry = ring_buffer_event_data(event); + /* + * The ring buffer is a size of trace_buf_size, if + * we loop more than the size, there's something wrong + * with the ring buffer. + */ + if (loops++ > trace_buf_size) { + printk(KERN_CONT ".. bad ring buffer "); + goto failed; + } if (!trace_valid_entry(entry)) { printk(KERN_CONT ".. invalid entry %d ", entry->type); @@ -57,11 +67,20 @@ static int trace_test_buffer(struct trace_array *tr, unsigned long *count) cnt = ring_buffer_entries(tr->buffer); + /* + * The trace_test_buffer_cpu runs a while loop to consume all data. + * If the calling tracer is broken, and is constantly filling + * the buffer, this will run forever, and hard lock the box. + * We disable the ring buffer while we do this test to prevent + * a hard lock up. + */ + tracing_off(); for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) { ret = trace_test_buffer_cpu(tr, cpu); if (ret) break; } + tracing_on(); __raw_spin_unlock(&ftrace_max_lock); local_irq_restore(flags); |