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    ftrace: Use schedule_on_each_cpu() as a heavy synchronize_sched() · 7614c3dc
    Steven Rostedt 提交于
    The function tracer uses preempt_disable/enable_notrace() for
    synchronization between reading registered ftrace_ops and unregistering
    them.
    
    Most of the ftrace_ops are global permanent structures that do not
    require this synchronization. That is, ops may be added and removed from
    the hlist but are never freed, and wont hurt if a synchronization is
    missed.
    
    But this is not true for dynamically created ftrace_ops or control_ops,
    which are used by the perf function tracing.
    
    The problem here is that the function tracer can be used to trace
    kernel/user context switches as well as going to and from idle.
    Basically, it can be used to trace blind spots of the RCU subsystem.
    This means that even though preempt_disable() is done, a
    synchronize_sched() will ignore CPUs that haven't made it out of user
    space or idle. These can include functions that are being traced just
    before entering or exiting the kernel sections.
    
    To implement the RCU synchronization, instead of using
    synchronize_sched() the use of schedule_on_each_cpu() is performed. This
    means that when a dynamically allocated ftrace_ops, or a control ops is
    being unregistered, all CPUs must be touched and execute a ftrace_sync()
    stub function via the work queues. This will rip CPUs out from idle or
    in dynamic tick mode. This only happens when a user disables perf
    function tracing or other dynamically allocated function tracers, but it
    allows us to continue to debug RCU and context tracking with function
    tracing.
    
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1369785676.15552.55.camel@gandalf.local.home
    
    Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
    Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
    Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
    Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
    Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
    Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
    Acked-by: NPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
    Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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