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2013-06-04timer: add time management functionsDaniel Borkmann1-0/+13
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authorSoumya PN <soumya.p.n@hpe.com>2016-05-17 21:31:14 +0530
committerSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>2016-05-20 13:19:37 -0400
commit6112a300c9e41993cc0dc56ac393743d28381284 (patch)
treebfc725d59bb98e3726c6884add2445c233c64eb7 /Documentation/men-chameleon-bus.txt
parent91e6f1ce8657795cec83a81090c20cbaa8337c68 (diff)
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 <soumya.p.n@hpe.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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