summaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorVasily Averin <vvs@virtuozzo.com>2020-11-18 15:05:20 +0300
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2020-12-08 12:18:55 +0300
commit2130fb76895e7fd283a30ceeb288869c817e4e77 (patch)
tree40df267c69e34f516b1fb459c345e3d2c778afb1
parent39af5bf26edee133e192d6f90242424f89b5060b (diff)
downloadlinux-2130fb76895e7fd283a30ceeb288869c817e4e77.tar.xz
tracing: Remove WARN_ON in start_thread()
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>
-rw-r--r--kernel/trace/trace_hwlat.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_hwlat.c b/kernel/trace/trace_hwlat.c
index 568918fae8d4..ade6c3070c62 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_hwlat.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_hwlat.c
@@ -355,7 +355,7 @@ static int start_kthread(struct trace_array *tr)
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 */