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The hwlat tracer uses a kernel thread to measure latencies. The function that creates this kernel thread, start_kthread(), can be called when the tracer is initialized and when the tracer is explicitly enabled. start_kthread() does not check if there is an existing hwlat kernel thread and will create a new one each time it is called. This causes the reference to the previous thread to be lost. Without the thread reference, the old kernel thread becomes unstoppable and continues to use CPU time even after the hwlat tracer has been disabled. This problem can be observed when a system is booted with tracing enabled and the hwlat tracer is configured like this: echo hwlat > current_tracer; echo 1 > tracing_on Add the missing check for an existing kernel thread in start_kthread() to prevent this problem. This function and the rest of the hwlat kernel thread setup and teardown are already serialized because they are called through the tracer core code with trace_type_lock held. [ Note, this only fixes the symptom. The real fix was not to call this function when tracing_on was already one. But this still makes the code more robust, so we'll add it. ] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1533120354-22923-1-git-send-email-erica.bugden@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Erica Bugden <erica.bugden@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org> |
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README
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.