[PATCH v5 04/10] powerpc64/ftrace: Delay enabling ftrace on secondary cpus

Naveen N. Rao naveen.n.rao at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Thu Apr 19 17:04:03 AEST 2018


On the boot cpu, though we enable paca->ftrace_enabled in early_setup()
(via cpu_ready_for_interrupts()), we don't start tracing until much
later since ftrace is not initialized yet and since we only support
DYNAMIC_FTRACE on powerpc. However, it is possible that ftrace has been
initialized by the time some of the secondary cpus start up. In this
case, we will try to trace some of the early boot code which can cause
problems.

To address this, move setting paca->ftrace_enabled from
cpu_ready_for_interrupts() to early_setup() for the boot cpu, and towards
the end of start_secondary() for secondary cpus.

Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c | 10 +++++++---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c      |  4 ++++
 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c
index 313136006d1c..7a7ce8ad455e 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c
@@ -252,9 +252,6 @@ static void cpu_ready_for_interrupts(void)
 
 	/* Set IR and DR in PACA MSR */
 	get_paca()->kernel_msr = MSR_KERNEL;
-
-	/* We are now ok to enable ftrace */
-	get_paca()->ftrace_enabled = 1;
 }
 
 unsigned long spr_default_dscr = 0;
@@ -349,6 +346,13 @@ void __init early_setup(unsigned long dt_ptr)
 	 */
 	cpu_ready_for_interrupts();
 
+	/*
+	 * We enable ftrace here, but since we only support DYNAMIC_FTRACE, it
+	 * will only actually get enabled on the boot cpu much later once
+	 * ftrace itself has been initialized.
+	 */
+	this_cpu_enable_ftrace();
+
 	DBG(" <- early_setup()\n");
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_PPC_EARLY_DEBUG_BOOTX
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c
index e16ec7b3b427..c4f5dfb686ca 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c
@@ -59,6 +59,7 @@
 #include <asm/kexec.h>
 #include <asm/asm-prototypes.h>
 #include <asm/cpu_has_feature.h>
+#include <asm/ftrace.h>
 
 #ifdef DEBUG
 #include <asm/udbg.h>
@@ -1031,6 +1032,9 @@ void start_secondary(void *unused)
 
 	local_irq_enable();
 
+	/* We can enable ftrace for secondary cpus now */
+	this_cpu_enable_ftrace();
+
 	cpu_startup_entry(CPUHP_AP_ONLINE_IDLE);
 
 	BUG();
-- 
2.17.0



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