The first two fix the case where full RCU debugging is enabled, enabling
function tracing causes a live lock of the system. This is due to the added
debug checks in rcu_dereference_raw() that is used by the function tracer.
These checks are also traced by the function tracer as well as cause enough
overhead to the function tracer to slow down the system enough that
the time to finish an interrupt can take longer than when the next
interrupt is triggered, causing a live lock from the timer interrupt.
Talking this over with Paul McKenney, we came up with a fix that adds
a new rcu_dereference_raw_notrace() that does not perform these added checks,
and let the function tracer use that.
The third commit fixes a failed compile when branch tracing is enabled,
due to the conversion of the trace_test_buffer() selftest that the
branch trace wasn't converted for.
The forth patch fixes a bug caught by the RCU lockdep code where a
rcu_read_lock() is performed when rcu is disabled (either going to
or from idle, or user space). This happened on the irqsoff tracer
as it calls task_uid(). The fix here was to use current_uid() when
possible that doesn't use rcu locking. Which luckily, is always used
when irqsoff calls this code.
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Merge tag 'trace-fixes-v3.10-rc3-v3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace
Pull tracing fixes from Steven Rostedt:
"This contains 4 fixes.
The first two fix the case where full RCU debugging is enabled,
enabling function tracing causes a live lock of the system. This is
due to the added debug checks in rcu_dereference_raw() that is used by
the function tracer. These checks are also traced by the function
tracer as well as cause enough overhead to the function tracer to slow
down the system enough that the time to finish an interrupt can take
longer than when the next interrupt is triggered, causing a live lock
from the timer interrupt.
Talking this over with Paul McKenney, we came up with a fix that adds
a new rcu_dereference_raw_notrace() that does not perform these added
checks, and let the function tracer use that.
The third commit fixes a failed compile when branch tracing is
enabled, due to the conversion of the trace_test_buffer() selftest
that the branch trace wasn't converted for.
The forth patch fixes a bug caught by the RCU lockdep code where a
rcu_read_lock() is performed when rcu is disabled (either going to or
from idle, or user space). This happened on the irqsoff tracer as it
calls task_uid(). The fix here was to use current_uid() when possible
that doesn't use rcu locking. Which luckily, is always used when
irqsoff calls this code."
* tag 'trace-fixes-v3.10-rc3-v3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace:
tracing: Use current_uid() for critical time tracing
tracing: Fix bad parameter passed in branch selftest
ftrace: Use the rcu _notrace variants for rcu_dereference_raw() and friends
rcu: Add _notrace variation of rcu_dereference_raw() and hlist_for_each_entry_rcu()
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