Merge commit 'v2.6.38-rc4' into x86/cpu

Merge reason: pick up the latest fixes.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

1 files changed, 37 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/lpar.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/lpar.c
index 5d3ea9f60dd7..ca5d5898d320 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/lpar.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/lpar.c
@@ -713,6 +713,13 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(arch_free_page);
 /* NB: reg/unreg are called while guarded with the tracepoints_mutex */
 extern long hcall_tracepoint_refcount;
 
+/* 
+ * Since the tracing code might execute hcalls we need to guard against
+ * recursion. One example of this are spinlocks calling H_YIELD on
+ * shared processor partitions.
+ */
+static DEFINE_PER_CPU(unsigned int, hcall_trace_depth);
+
 void hcall_tracepoint_regfunc(void)
 {
 	hcall_tracepoint_refcount++;
@@ -725,12 +732,42 @@ void hcall_tracepoint_unregfunc(void)
 
 void __trace_hcall_entry(unsigned long opcode, unsigned long *args)
 {
+	unsigned long flags;
+	unsigned int *depth;
+
+	local_irq_save(flags);
+
+	depth = &__get_cpu_var(hcall_trace_depth);
+
+	if (*depth)
+		goto out;
+
+	(*depth)++;
 	trace_hcall_entry(opcode, args);
+	(*depth)--;
+
+out:
+	local_irq_restore(flags);
 }
 
 void __trace_hcall_exit(long opcode, unsigned long retval,
 			unsigned long *retbuf)
 {
+	unsigned long flags;
+	unsigned int *depth;
+
+	local_irq_save(flags);
+
+	depth = &__get_cpu_var(hcall_trace_depth);
+
+	if (*depth)
+		goto out;
+
+	(*depth)++;
 	trace_hcall_exit(opcode, retval, retbuf);
+	(*depth)--;
+
+out:
+	local_irq_restore(flags);
 }
 #endif