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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/2] tracing/events/lockdep: move tracepoints within recursive protection
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On Thu, 2009-04-16 at 13:45 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Apr 2009, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 2009-04-16 at 12:15 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > > plain text document attachment
> > > (0002-tracing-events-lockdep-move-tracepoints-within-recu.patch)
> > > From: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
> > >
> > > With the current location of the tracepoints in lockdep, the system
> > > can hard lockup in minutes when the tracepoints are enabled.
> > >
> > > Moving the tracepoints outside inside the lockdep protection solves
> > > the issue.
> >
> > NAK
>
> Can we at least add this as a workaround. Basically, the lockdep
> tracepoints are broken as is. I do not plan on changing the logic of the
> events to prevent nesting. That's a feature I use. If we don't allow
> nesting, we must drop events, which is bad.

No, I would say any nesting is a bug, and should stop tracing and print
a splat. No need to drop events.

> The other answer is simply to remove the trace points in lockdep, until
> they work again.

Well, they worked when I added them, so someone broke it.



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