Commit 71229230 authored Dec 13, 2023 by Steven Rostedt (Google)

ring-buffer: Do not record in NMI if the arch does not support cmpxchg in NMI

As the ring buffer recording requires cmpxchg() to work, if the
architecture does not support cmpxchg in NMI, then do not do any recording
within an NMI.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20231213175403.6fc18540@gandalf.local.home

Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>

parent 0aa0e528

kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c

+6 −0

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -3674,6 +3674,12 @@ rb_reserve_next_event(struct trace_buffer *buffer,
		int nr_loops = 0;
		int add_ts_default;

		/* ring buffer does cmpxchg, make sure it is safe in NMI context */
		if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG) &&
		(unlikely(in_nmi()))) {
		return NULL;
		}

		rb_start_commit(cpu_buffer);
		/* The commit page can not change after this */