linux-uconsole/kernel/trace
Steven Rostedt 4db6055ac0 ftrace: Fix memory leak with function graph and cpu hotplug
commit 868baf07b1 upstream.

When the fuction graph tracer starts, it needs to make a special
stack for each task to save the real return values of the tasks.
All running tasks have this stack created, as well as any new
tasks.

On CPU hot plug, the new idle task will allocate a stack as well
when init_idle() is called. The problem is that cpu hotplug does
not create a new idle_task. Instead it uses the idle task that
existed when the cpu went down.

ftrace_graph_init_task() will add a new ret_stack to the task
that is given to it. Because a clone will make the task
have a stack of its parent it does not check if the task's
ret_stack is already NULL or not. When the CPU hotplug code
starts a CPU up again, it will allocate a new stack even
though one already existed for it.

The solution is to treat the idle_task specially. In fact, the
function_graph code already does, just not at init_idle().
Instead of using the ftrace_graph_init_task() for the idle task,
which that function expects the task to be a clone, have a
separate ftrace_graph_init_idle_task(). Also, we will create a
per_cpu ret_stack that is used by the idle task. When we call
ftrace_graph_init_idle_task() it will check if the idle task's
ret_stack is NULL, if it is, then it will assign it the per_cpu
ret_stack.

Reported-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-03-23 13:16:39 -07:00
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blktrace.c Add a tracepoint for block request remapping 2009-10-01 21:19:34 +02:00
ftrace.c ftrace: Fix memory leak with function graph and cpu hotplug 2011-03-23 13:16:39 -07:00
Kconfig trivial: Fix duplicated word "options" in comment 2009-09-21 15:14:58 +02:00
kmemtrace.c kmemtrace: Fix up tracer registration 2009-10-01 11:53:44 +02:00
Makefile tracing, perf: Convert the power tracer into an event tracer 2009-09-19 11:42:12 +02:00
power-traces.c tracing, perf: Convert the power tracer into an event tracer 2009-09-19 11:42:12 +02:00
ring_buffer.c ring-buffer: Fix typo of time extends per page 2010-10-28 21:44:00 -07:00
ring_buffer_benchmark.c ring-buffer: have benchmark test print to trace buffer 2009-06-17 17:01:09 -04:00
trace.c tracing: Fix panic when lseek() called on "trace" opened for writing 2011-01-07 14:43:10 -08:00
trace.h tracing: Fix ftrace_event_call alignment for use with gcc 4.5 2010-05-12 14:57:14 -07:00
trace_boot.c tracing: add filter event logic to special, mmiotrace and boot tracers 2009-09-12 23:34:04 -04:00
trace_branch.c tracing: user local buffer variable for trace branch tracer 2009-10-07 21:53:41 -04:00
trace_clock.c tracing: optimize global_trace_clock cachelines 2009-09-15 12:24:22 -04:00
trace_entries.h tracing, perf: Convert the power tracer into an event tracer 2009-09-19 11:42:12 +02:00
trace_event_profile.c tracing: Use free_percpu instead of kfree 2009-10-05 10:57:56 +02:00
trace_events.c tracing: Check the return value of trace_get_user() 2009-09-22 10:28:55 +02:00
trace_events_filter.c tracing/filters: Fix memory leak when setting a filter 2009-10-13 08:05:17 +02:00
trace_export.c tracing: remove some unused macros 2009-09-14 11:43:24 -04:00
trace_functions.c tracing: switch function prints from %pf to %ps 2009-09-17 15:53:40 -04:00
trace_functions_graph.c tracing: switch function prints from %pf to %ps 2009-09-17 15:53:40 -04:00
trace_hw_branches.c tracing: fix warning on kernel/trace/trace_branch.c andtrace_hw_branches.c 2009-10-07 21:52:03 -04:00
trace_irqsoff.c tracing: do not update tracing_max_latency when tracer is stopped 2009-09-12 21:45:17 -04:00
trace_mmiotrace.c tracing: add filter event logic to special, mmiotrace and boot tracers 2009-09-12 23:34:04 -04:00
trace_nop.c tracing/ftrace: make nop-tracer use polling wait for events on pipe 2009-03-23 09:22:15 +01:00
trace_output.c tracing: Fix trace_seq_printf() return value 2009-10-24 11:07:50 +02:00
trace_output.h tracing: consolidate code between trace_output.c and trace_function_graph.c 2009-09-11 14:24:13 -04:00
trace_printk.c tracing: Remove markers 2009-09-18 21:22:08 +02:00
trace_sched_switch.c tracing: pass around ring buffer instead of tracer 2009-09-04 18:59:39 -04:00
trace_sched_wakeup.c tracing: do not update tracing_max_latency when tracer is stopped 2009-09-12 21:45:17 -04:00
trace_selftest.c tracing/function-graph-tracer: Move graph event insertion helpers in the graph tracer file 2009-08-06 07:28:06 +02:00
trace_selftest_dynamic.c ftrace: fix dynamic ftrace selftest 2008-05-23 21:13:23 +02:00
trace_stack.c sysctl: remove "struct file *" argument of ->proc_handler 2009-09-24 07:21:04 -07:00
trace_stat.c trace_stat: Fix missing entry in stat file 2009-08-17 11:25:09 +02:00
trace_stat.h tracing/stat: Add stat_release() callback 2009-07-10 12:14:05 +02:00
trace_syscalls.c tracing/syscalls: Use long for syscall ret format and field definitions 2009-10-06 12:02:34 +02:00
trace_sysprof.c Merge branch 'timers-for-linus-migration' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2009-06-15 10:06:19 -07:00
trace_workqueue.c tracing/workqueues: Add refcnt to struct cpu_workqueue_stats 2009-07-10 12:14:07 +02:00