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SubjectRe: [PATCH] ftrace: disable tracing for suspend to ram
On Wed 2008-08-27 09:14:40, Steven Rostedt wrote:
>
> I've been painstakingly debugging the issue with suspend to ram and
> ftraced. The 2.6.28 code does not have this issue, but since the mcount
> recording is not going to be in 27, this must be solved for the ftrace
> daemon version.
>
> The resume from suspend to ram would reboot because it was triple
> faulting. Debugging further, I found that calling the mcount function
> itself was not an issue, but it would fault when it incremented
> preempt_count. preempt_count is on the tasks info structure that is on the
> low memory address of the task's stack. For some reason, it could not
> write to it. Resuming out of suspend to ram does quite a lot of funny
> tricks to get to work, so it is not surprising at all that simply doing a
> preempt_disable() would cause a fault.
>
> Thanks to Rafael for suggesting to add a "while (1);" to find the place in
> resuming that is causing the fault. I would place the loop somewhere in
> the code, compile and reboot and see if it would either reboot (hit the
> fault) or simply hang (hit the loop). Doing this over and over again, I
> narrowed it down that it was happening in enable_nonboot_cpus.
>
> At this point, I found that it is easier to simply disable tracing around
> the suspend code, instead of searching for the particular function that
> can not handle doing a preempt_disable.
>
> This patch disables the tracer as it suspends and reenables it on resume.
>
> I tested this patch on my Laptop, and it can resume fine with the patch.
>
> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>

So this is going to be reverted after 2.6.27? Okay, then.

Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>


> kernel/power/main.c | 5 ++++-
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> Index: linux-compile.git/kernel/power/main.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-compile.git.orig/kernel/power/main.c 2008-08-27 08:53:11.000000000 -0400
> +++ linux-compile.git/kernel/power/main.c 2008-08-27 08:53:58.000000000 -0400
> @@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
> #include <linux/freezer.h>
> #include <linux/vmstat.h>
> #include <linux/syscalls.h>
> +#include <linux/ftrace.h>
>
> #include "power.h"
>
> @@ -310,7 +311,7 @@ static int suspend_enter(suspend_state_t
> */
> int suspend_devices_and_enter(suspend_state_t state)
> {
> - int error;
> + int error, ftrace_save;
>
> if (!suspend_ops)
> return -ENOSYS;
> @@ -321,6 +322,7 @@ int suspend_devices_and_enter(suspend_st
> goto Close;
> }
> suspend_console();
> + ftrace_save = __ftrace_enabled_save();
> suspend_test_start();
> error = device_suspend(PMSG_SUSPEND);
> if (error) {
> @@ -352,6 +354,7 @@ int suspend_devices_and_enter(suspend_st
> suspend_test_start();
> device_resume(PMSG_RESUME);
> suspend_test_finish("resume devices");
> + __ftrace_enabled_restore(ftrace_save);
> resume_console();
> Close:
> if (suspend_ops->end)
>
>

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