From 6112a300c9e41993cc0dc56ac393743d28381284 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Soumya PN Date: Tue, 17 May 2016 21:31:14 +0530 Subject: ftrace: Don't disable irqs when taking the tasklist_lock read_lock In ftrace.c inside the function alloc_retstack_tasklist() (which will be invoked when function_graph tracing is on) the tasklist_lock is being held as reader while iterating through a list of threads. Here the lock is being held as reader with irqs disabled. The tasklist_lock is never write_locked in interrupt context so it is safe to not disable interrupts for the duration of read_lock in this block which, can be significant, given the block of code iterates through all threads. Hence changing the code to call read_lock() and read_unlock() instead of read_lock_irqsave() and read_unlock_irqrestore(). A similar change was made in commits: 8063e41d2ffc ("tracing: Change syscall_*regfunc() to check PF_KTHREAD and use for_each_process_thread()")' and 3472eaa1f12e ("sched: normalize_rt_tasks(): Don't use _irqsave for tasklist_lock, use task_rq_lock()")' Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1463500874-77480-1-git-send-email-soumya.p.n@hpe.com Signed-off-by: Soumya PN Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt --- kernel/trace/ftrace.c | 5 ++--- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'kernel') diff --git a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c index b1870fbd2b67..a6804823a058 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c +++ b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c @@ -5713,7 +5713,6 @@ static int alloc_retstack_tasklist(struct ftrace_ret_stack **ret_stack_list) { int i; int ret = 0; - unsigned long flags; int start = 0, end = FTRACE_RETSTACK_ALLOC_SIZE; struct task_struct *g, *t; @@ -5729,7 +5728,7 @@ static int alloc_retstack_tasklist(struct ftrace_ret_stack **ret_stack_list) } } - read_lock_irqsave(&tasklist_lock, flags); + read_lock(&tasklist_lock); do_each_thread(g, t) { if (start == end) { ret = -EAGAIN; @@ -5747,7 +5746,7 @@ static int alloc_retstack_tasklist(struct ftrace_ret_stack **ret_stack_list) } while_each_thread(g, t); unlock: - read_unlock_irqrestore(&tasklist_lock, flags); + read_unlock(&tasklist_lock); free: for (i = start; i < end; i++) kfree(ret_stack_list[i]); -- cgit v1.2.3