Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753896Ab3GIJiN (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Jul 2013 05:38:13 -0400 Received: from mail7.hitachi.co.jp ([133.145.228.42]:47631 "EHLO mail7.hitachi.co.jp" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753601Ab3GIJiM (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Jul 2013 05:38:12 -0400 X-AuditID: 85900ec0-d4ccab900000151e-4f-51dbda003cb8 Subject: [RFC PATCH V2] tracing/kprobe: Wait for disabling all running kprobe handlers To: Steven Rostedt From: Masami Hiramatsu Cc: Peter Zijlstra , Frederic Weisbecker , Oleg Nesterov , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , Andrew Morton , jovi.zhangwei@huawei.com, Jiri Olsa , Srikar Dronamraju Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2013 18:35:26 +0900 Message-ID: <20130709093526.20138.93100.stgit@mhiramat-M0-7522> In-Reply-To: <20130709082149.GK25631@dyad.programming.kicks-ass.net> References: <20130709082149.GK25631@dyad.programming.kicks-ass.net> User-Agent: StGit/0.15 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAA== Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2326 Lines: 74 Wait for disabling all running kprobe handlers when a kprobe event is disabled, since the caller, trace_remove_event_call() supposes that a removing event is disabled completely by disabling the event. With this change, ftrace can ensure that there is no running event handlers after disabling it. Changes in V2: - Comment (in code) for clarify why we need to wait there. Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu --- kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c | 23 +++++++++++++++++------ 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c b/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c index 7ed6976..8374f78 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c @@ -243,11 +243,11 @@ find_event_file_link(struct trace_probe *tp, struct ftrace_event_file *file) static int disable_trace_probe(struct trace_probe *tp, struct ftrace_event_file *file) { + struct event_file_link *link = NULL; + int wait = 0; int ret = 0; if (file) { - struct event_file_link *link; - link = find_event_file_link(tp, file); if (!link) { ret = -EINVAL; @@ -255,10 +255,7 @@ disable_trace_probe(struct trace_probe *tp, struct ftrace_event_file *file) } list_del_rcu(&link->list); - /* synchronize with kprobe_trace_func/kretprobe_trace_func */ - synchronize_sched(); - kfree(link); - + wait = 1; if (!list_empty(&tp->files)) goto out; @@ -271,8 +268,22 @@ disable_trace_probe(struct trace_probe *tp, struct ftrace_event_file *file) disable_kretprobe(&tp->rp); else disable_kprobe(&tp->rp.kp); + wait = 1; } out: + if (wait) { + /* + * Synchronize with kprobe_trace_func/kretprobe_trace_func + * to ensure disabled (all running handlers are finished). + * This is not only for kfree(), but also the caller, + * trace_remove_event_call() supposes it for releasing + * event_call related objects, which will be accessed in + * the kprobe_trace_func/kretprobe_trace_func. + */ + synchronize_sched(); + kfree(link); /* Ignored if link == NULL */ + } + return ret; } -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/