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    MIPS: Fix kernel hang under FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER and PREEMPT_TRACER · 78cf0eb9
    Tiezhu Yang authored
    When update the latest mainline kernel with the following three configs,
    the kernel hangs during startup:
    
    (1) CONFIG_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER=y
    (2) CONFIG_PREEMPT_TRACER=y
    (3) CONFIG_FTRACE_STARTUP_TEST=y
    
    When update the latest mainline kernel with the above two configs (1)
    and (2), the kernel starts normally, but it still hangs when execute
    the following command:
    
    echo "function_graph" > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/current_tracer
    
    Without CONFIG_PREEMPT_TRACER=y, the above two kinds of kernel hangs
    disappeared, so it seems that CONFIG_PREEMPT_TRACER has some influences
    with function_graph tracer at the first glance.
    
    I use ejtag to find out the epc address is related with preempt_enable()
    in the file arch/mips/lib/mips-atomic.c, because function tracing can
    trace the preempt_{enable,disable} calls that are traced, replace them
    with preempt_{enable,disable}_notrace to prevent function tracing from
    going into an infinite loop, and then it can fix the kernel hang issue.
    
    By the way, it seems that this commit is a complement and improvement of
    commit f93a1a00
    
     ("MIPS: Fix crash that occurs when function tracing
    is enabled").
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarTiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@loongson.cn>
    Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>
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