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* 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  tracing/kprobes: Fix probe parsing
  tracing: Fix circular dead lock in stack trace
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torvalds committed Feb 16, 2010
2 parents 3d8b4bd + a9bb18f commit 627a9a1
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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c
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Expand Up @@ -689,7 +689,7 @@ static int create_trace_probe(int argc, char **argv)
return -EINVAL;
}
/* an address specified */
ret = strict_strtoul(&argv[0][2], 0, (unsigned long *)&addr);
ret = strict_strtoul(&argv[1][0], 0, (unsigned long *)&addr);
if (ret) {
pr_info("Failed to parse address.\n");
return ret;
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24 changes: 24 additions & 0 deletions kernel/trace/trace_stack.c
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Expand Up @@ -157,6 +157,7 @@ stack_max_size_write(struct file *filp, const char __user *ubuf,
unsigned long val, flags;
char buf[64];
int ret;
int cpu;

if (count >= sizeof(buf))
return -EINVAL;
Expand All @@ -171,9 +172,20 @@ stack_max_size_write(struct file *filp, const char __user *ubuf,
return ret;

local_irq_save(flags);

/*
* In case we trace inside arch_spin_lock() or after (NMI),
* we will cause circular lock, so we also need to increase
* the percpu trace_active here.
*/
cpu = smp_processor_id();
per_cpu(trace_active, cpu)++;

arch_spin_lock(&max_stack_lock);
*ptr = val;
arch_spin_unlock(&max_stack_lock);

per_cpu(trace_active, cpu)--;
local_irq_restore(flags);

return count;
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static void *t_start(struct seq_file *m, loff_t *pos)
{
int cpu;

local_irq_disable();

cpu = smp_processor_id();
per_cpu(trace_active, cpu)++;

arch_spin_lock(&max_stack_lock);

if (*pos == 0)
Expand All @@ -217,7 +235,13 @@ static void *t_start(struct seq_file *m, loff_t *pos)

static void t_stop(struct seq_file *m, void *p)
{
int cpu;

arch_spin_unlock(&max_stack_lock);

cpu = smp_processor_id();
per_cpu(trace_active, cpu)--;

local_irq_enable();
}

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