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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-07-03 13:44:07 (GMT)
committerScott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>2014-04-10 00:19:05 (GMT)
commit6ab20341d88df6610a0d2cb02cba3c8a7746d9b8 (patch)
tree430624f88c6f12691ec6e6775b51186043486641 /kernel/relay.c
parentf88491346129d5c5fccf5696415ba4eb4c47c04c (diff)
downloadlinux-fsl-qoriq-6ab20341d88df6610a0d2cb02cba3c8a7746d9b8.tar.xz
relay: fix timer madness
remove timer calls (!!!) from deep within the tracing infrastructure. This was totally bogus code that can cause lockups and worse. Poll the buffer every 2 jiffies for now. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/relay.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/relay.c14
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/relay.c b/kernel/relay.c
index 5001c98..b915513 100644
--- a/kernel/relay.c
+++ b/kernel/relay.c
@@ -339,6 +339,10 @@ static void wakeup_readers(unsigned long data)
{
struct rchan_buf *buf = (struct rchan_buf *)data;
wake_up_interruptible(&buf->read_wait);
+ /*
+ * Stupid polling for now:
+ */
+ mod_timer(&buf->timer, jiffies + 1);
}
/**
@@ -356,6 +360,7 @@ static void __relay_reset(struct rchan_buf *buf, unsigned int init)
init_waitqueue_head(&buf->read_wait);
kref_init(&buf->kref);
setup_timer(&buf->timer, wakeup_readers, (unsigned long)buf);
+ mod_timer(&buf->timer, jiffies + 1);
} else
del_timer_sync(&buf->timer);
@@ -739,15 +744,6 @@ size_t relay_switch_subbuf(struct rchan_buf *buf, size_t length)
else
buf->early_bytes += buf->chan->subbuf_size -
buf->padding[old_subbuf];
- smp_mb();
- if (waitqueue_active(&buf->read_wait))
- /*
- * Calling wake_up_interruptible() from here
- * will deadlock if we happen to be logging
- * from the scheduler (trying to re-grab
- * rq->lock), so defer it.
- */
- mod_timer(&buf->timer, jiffies + 1);
}
old = buf->data;