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authorSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>2011-07-13 15:11:02 -0400
committerSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>2011-07-13 22:25:09 -0400
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ftrace: Fix dynamic selftest failure on some archs
Archs that do not implement CONFIG_HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACE_MCOUNT_TEST, will fail the dynamic ftrace selftest. The function tracer has a quick 'off' variable that will prevent the call back functions from being called. This variable is called function_trace_stop. In x86, this is implemented directly in the mcount assembly, but for other archs, an intermediate function is used called ftrace_test_stop_func(). In dynamic ftrace, the function pointer variable ftrace_trace_function is used to update the caller code in the mcount caller. But for archs that do not have CONFIG_HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACE_MCOUNT_TEST set, it only calls ftrace_test_stop_func() instead, which in turn calls __ftrace_trace_function. When more than one ftrace_ops is registered, the function it calls is ftrace_ops_list_func(), which will iterate over all registered ftrace_ops and call the callbacks that have their hash matching. The issue happens when two ftrace_ops are registered for different functions and one is then unregistered. The __ftrace_trace_function is then pointed to the remaining ftrace_ops callback function directly. This mean it will be called for all functions that were registered to trace by both ftrace_ops that were registered. This is not an issue for archs with CONFIG_HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACE_MCOUNT_TEST, because the update of ftrace_trace_function doesn't happen until after all functions have been updated, and then the mcount caller is updated. But for those archs that do use the ftrace_test_stop_func(), the update is immediate. The dynamic selftest fails because it hits this situation, and the ftrace_ops that it registers fails to only trace what it was suppose to and instead traces all other functions. The solution is to delay the setting of __ftrace_trace_function until after all the functions have been updated according to the registered ftrace_ops. Also, function_trace_stop is set during the update to prevent function tracing from calling code that is caused by the function tracer itself. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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