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gcov: fix softlockups

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gcov profiling if enabled with other heavy compile-time instrumentation
like KASan could trigger following softlockups:

  NMI watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 22s! [swapper/0:1]
  Modules linked in:
  irq event stamp: 22823276
  hardirqs last  enabled at (22823275): [<ffffffff86e8d10d>] mutex_lock_nested+0x7d9/0x930
  hardirqs last disabled at (22823276): [<ffffffff86e9521d>] apic_timer_interrupt+0x6d/0x80
  softirqs last  enabled at (22823172): [<ffffffff811ed969>] __do_softirq+0x4db/0x729
  softirqs last disabled at (22823167): [<ffffffff811edfcf>] irq_exit+0x7d/0x15b
  CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Tainted: G        W       3.19.0-05245-gbb33326-dirty #3
  Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.7.5.1-0-g8936dbb-20141113_115728-nilsson.home.kraxel.org 04/01/2014
  task: ffff88006cba8000 ti: ffff88006cbb0000 task.ti: ffff88006cbb0000
  RIP: kasan_mem_to_shadow+0x1e/0x1f
  Call Trace:
    strcmp+0x28/0x70
    get_node_by_name+0x66/0x99
    gcov_event+0x4f/0x69e
    gcov_enable_events+0x54/0x7b
    gcov_fs_init+0xf8/0x134
    do_one_initcall+0x1b2/0x288
    kernel_init_freeable+0x467/0x580
    kernel_init+0x15/0x18b
    ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0
  Kernel panic - not syncing: softlockup: hung tasks

Fix this by sticking cond_resched() in gcov_enable_events().

Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin <a.ryabinin@samsung.com>
Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Andrey Ryabinin 2015-04-16 12:48:10 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 230633d109
commit 9d796e6623
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kernel/gcov/base.c
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@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
#include <linux/init.h>
#include <linux/module.h>
#include <linux/mutex.h>
#include <linux/sched.h>
#include "gcov.h"
static int gcov_events_enabled;
@ -107,8 +108,10 @@ void gcov_enable_events(void)
gcov_events_enabled = 1;
/* Perform event callback for previously registered entries. */
while ((info = gcov_info_next(info)))
while ((info = gcov_info_next(info))) {
gcov_event(GCOV_ADD, info);
cond_resched();
}
mutex_unlock(&gcov_lock);
}