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-rw-r--r--kernel/trace/Kconfig3
-rw-r--r--kernel/trace/ftrace.c42
2 files changed, 20 insertions, 25 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/trace/Kconfig b/kernel/trace/Kconfig
index d4a06e7..67b463b 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/Kconfig
+++ b/kernel/trace/Kconfig
@@ -134,7 +134,8 @@ config FUNCTION_TRACER
select KALLSYMS
select GENERIC_TRACER
select CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER
- select GLOB
+ select GLOB
+ select TASKS_RCU if PREEMPT
help
Enable the kernel to trace every kernel function. This is done
by using a compiler feature to insert a small, 5-byte No-Operation
diff --git a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
index 8efd9fe..34f63e7 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
@@ -2808,18 +2808,28 @@ static int ftrace_shutdown(struct ftrace_ops *ops, int command)
* callers are done before leaving this function.
* The same goes for freeing the per_cpu data of the per_cpu
* ops.
- *
- * Again, normal synchronize_sched() is not good enough.
- * We need to do a hard force of sched synchronization.
- * This is because we use preempt_disable() to do RCU, but
- * the function tracers can be called where RCU is not watching
- * (like before user_exit()). We can not rely on the RCU
- * infrastructure to do the synchronization, thus we must do it
- * ourselves.
*/
if (ops->flags & (FTRACE_OPS_FL_DYNAMIC | FTRACE_OPS_FL_PER_CPU)) {
+ /*
+ * We need to do a hard force of sched synchronization.
+ * This is because we use preempt_disable() to do RCU, but
+ * the function tracers can be called where RCU is not watching
+ * (like before user_exit()). We can not rely on the RCU
+ * infrastructure to do the synchronization, thus we must do it
+ * ourselves.
+ */
schedule_on_each_cpu(ftrace_sync);
+ /*
+ * When the kernel is preeptive, tasks can be preempted
+ * while on a ftrace trampoline. Just scheduling a task on
+ * a CPU is not good enough to flush them. Calling
+ * synchornize_rcu_tasks() will wait for those tasks to
+ * execute and either schedule voluntarily or enter user space.
+ */
+ if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PREEMPT))
+ synchronize_rcu_tasks();
+
arch_ftrace_trampoline_free(ops);
if (ops->flags & FTRACE_OPS_FL_PER_CPU)
@@ -5366,22 +5376,6 @@ void __weak arch_ftrace_update_trampoline(struct ftrace_ops *ops)
static void ftrace_update_trampoline(struct ftrace_ops *ops)
{
-
-/*
- * Currently there's no safe way to free a trampoline when the kernel
- * is configured with PREEMPT. That is because a task could be preempted
- * when it jumped to the trampoline, it may be preempted for a long time
- * depending on the system load, and currently there's no way to know
- * when it will be off the trampoline. If the trampoline is freed
- * too early, when the task runs again, it will be executing on freed
- * memory and crash.
- */
-#ifdef CONFIG_PREEMPT
- /* Currently, only non dynamic ops can have a trampoline */
- if (ops->flags & FTRACE_OPS_FL_DYNAMIC)
- return;
-#endif
-
arch_ftrace_update_trampoline(ops);
}
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