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[for-linus,08/12] tracing: Remove WARN_ON in start_thread()

Message ID 20201201160006.206022360@goodmis.org
State New
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Commit Message

Steven Rostedt Dec. 1, 2020, 3:58 p.m. UTC 
From: Vasily Averin <vvs@virtuozzo.com>

This patch reverts commit 978defee11a5 ("tracing: Do a WARN_ON()
 if start_thread() in hwlat is called when thread exists")

.start hook can be legally called several times if according
tracer is stopped

screen window 1
[root@localhost ~]# echo 1 > /sys/kernel/tracing/events/kmem/kfree/enable
[root@localhost ~]# echo 1 > /sys/kernel/tracing/options/pause-on-trace
[root@localhost ~]# less -F /sys/kernel/tracing/trace

screen window 2
[root@localhost ~]# cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/tracing_on
0
[root@localhost ~]# echo hwlat >  /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/current_tracer
[root@localhost ~]# echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/tracing_on
[root@localhost ~]# cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/tracing_on
0
[root@localhost ~]# echo 2 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/tracing_on

triggers warning in dmesg:
WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 1403 at kernel/trace/trace_hwlat.c:371 hwlat_tracer_start+0xc9/0xd0

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/bd4d3e70-400d-9c82-7b73-a2d695e86b58@virtuozzo.com

Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 978defee11a5 ("tracing: Do a WARN_ON() if start_thread() in hwlat is called when thread exists")
Signed-off-by: Vasily Averin <vvs@virtuozzo.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
---
 kernel/trace/trace_hwlat.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
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diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_hwlat.c b/kernel/trace/trace_hwlat.c
index c9ad5c6fbaad..d071fc271eef 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_hwlat.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_hwlat.c
@@ -368,7 +368,7 @@  static int start_kthread(struct trace_array *tr)
 	struct task_struct *kthread;
 	int next_cpu;
 
-	if (WARN_ON(hwlat_kthread))
+	if (hwlat_kthread)
 		return 0;
 
 	/* Just pick the first CPU on first iteration */