KVM guest: prevent tracing recursion with kvmclock
authorAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Tue, 15 Nov 2011 12:59:07 +0000 (14:59 +0200)
committerAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Sun, 20 Nov 2011 08:53:48 +0000 (10:53 +0200)
Prevent tracing of preempt_disable() in get_cpu_var() in
kvm_clock_read(). When CONFIG_DEBUG_PREEMPT is enabled,
preempt_disable/enable() are traced and this causes the function_graph
tracer to go into an infinite recursion. By open coding the
preempt_disable() around the get_cpu_var(), we can use the notrace
version which prevents preempt_disable/enable() from being traced and
prevents the recursion.

Based on a similar patch for Xen from Jeremy Fitzhardinge.

Tested-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
arch/x86/kernel/kvmclock.c

index c1a0188e29aef61d22706c8d0f2b99f843cf8fc7..44842d756b29fa9b2705fb8c57189fe5d28b5732 100644 (file)
@@ -74,9 +74,10 @@ static cycle_t kvm_clock_read(void)
        struct pvclock_vcpu_time_info *src;
        cycle_t ret;
 
-       src = &get_cpu_var(hv_clock);
+       preempt_disable_notrace();
+       src = &__get_cpu_var(hv_clock);
        ret = pvclock_clocksource_read(src);
-       put_cpu_var(hv_clock);
+       preempt_enable_notrace();
        return ret;
 }