tracing: Fix circular dead lock in stack trace
When we cat <debugfs>/tracing/stack_trace, we may cause circular lock: sys_read() t_start() arch_spin_lock(&max_stack_lock); t_show() seq_printf(), vsnprintf() .... /* they are all trace-able, when they are traced, max_stack_lock may be required again. */ The following script can trigger this circular dead lock very easy: #!/bin/bash echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/stack_tracer_enabled mount -t debugfs xxx /mnt > /dev/null 2>&1 ( # make check_stack() zealous to require max_stack_lock for ((; ;)) { echo 1 > /mnt/tracing/stack_max_size } ) & for ((; ;)) { cat /mnt/tracing/stack_trace > /dev/null } To fix this bug, we increase the percpu trace_active before require the lock. Reported-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> LKML-Reference: <4B67D4F9.9080905@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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