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The function probe counting for traceon and traceoff suffered a race condition where if the probe was executing on two or more CPUs at the same time, it could decrement the counter by more than one when disabling (or enabling) the tracer only once. The way the traceon and traceoff probes are suppose to work is that they disable (or enable) tracing once per count. If a user were to echo 'schedule:traceoff:3' into set_ftrace_filter, then when the schedule function was called, it would disable tracing. But the count should only be decremented once (to 2). Then if the user enabled tracing again (via tracing_on file), the next call to schedule would disable tracing again and the count would be decremented to 1. But if multiple CPUS called schedule at the same time, it is possible that the count would be decremented more than once because of the simple "count--" used. By reading the count into a local variable and using memory barriers we can guarantee that the count would only be decremented once per disable (or enable). The stack trace probe had a similar race, but here the stack trace will decrement for each time it is called. But this had the read-modify- write race, where it could stack trace more than the number of times that was specified. This case we use a cmpxchg to stack trace only the number of times specified. The dump probes can still use the old "update_count()" function as they only run once, and that is controlled by the dump logic itself. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20141118134643.4b550ee4@gandalf.local.home Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> |
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| blktrace.c | ||
| ftrace.c | ||
| Kconfig | ||
| Makefile | ||
| power-traces.c | ||
| ring_buffer.c | ||
| ring_buffer_benchmark.c | ||
| rpm-traces.c | ||
| trace.c | ||
| trace.h | ||
| trace_benchmark.c | ||
| trace_benchmark.h | ||
| trace_branch.c | ||
| trace_clock.c | ||
| trace_entries.h | ||
| trace_event_perf.c | ||
| trace_events.c | ||
| trace_events_filter.c | ||
| trace_events_filter_test.h | ||
| trace_events_trigger.c | ||
| trace_export.c | ||
| trace_functions.c | ||
| trace_functions_graph.c | ||
| trace_irqsoff.c | ||
| trace_kdb.c | ||
| trace_kprobe.c | ||
| trace_mmiotrace.c | ||
| trace_nop.c | ||
| trace_output.c | ||
| trace_output.h | ||
| trace_printk.c | ||
| trace_probe.c | ||
| trace_probe.h | ||
| trace_sched_switch.c | ||
| trace_sched_wakeup.c | ||
| trace_selftest.c | ||
| trace_selftest_dynamic.c | ||
| trace_seq.c | ||
| trace_stack.c | ||
| trace_stat.c | ||
| trace_stat.h | ||
| trace_syscalls.c | ||
| trace_uprobe.c | ||