From: Vasily Averin vvs@virtuozzo.com
commit 310e3a4b5a4fc718a72201c1e4cf5c64ac6f5442 upstream.
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 Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
--- kernel/trace/trace_hwlat.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_hwlat.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_hwlat.c @@ -368,7 +368,7 @@ static int start_kthread(struct trace_ar 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 */