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| author | Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> | 2006-09-26 10:52:34 +0200 |
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| committer | Andi Kleen <andi@basil.nowhere.org> | 2006-09-26 10:52:34 +0200 |
| commit | 3fa7c794fe4dc127f7fac3fad4d13628e68f89ce (patch) | |
| tree | 855a6737a2275317bcd3f3a9934c33dcadba6e6f /kernel | |
| parent | 5a1b3999d6cb7ab87f1f3b1700bc91839fd6fa29 (diff) | |
| download | linux-3fa7c794fe4dc127f7fac3fad4d13628e68f89ce.tar.bz2 | |
[PATCH] Avoid recursion in lockdep when stack tracer takes locks
The new dwarf2 unwinder needs to take locks to do backtraces
inside modules. This patch makes sure lockdep which calls
stacktrace is not reentered.
Thanks to Ingo for suggesting this simpler approach.
Cc: mingo@elte.hu
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/lockdep.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/lockdep.c b/kernel/lockdep.c index 900b4cb1a024..c088e5542e84 100644 --- a/kernel/lockdep.c +++ b/kernel/lockdep.c @@ -227,7 +227,11 @@ static int save_trace(struct stack_trace *trace) trace->skip = 3; trace->all_contexts = 0; + /* Make sure to not recurse in case the the unwinder needs to tak +e locks. */ + lockdep_off(); save_stack_trace(trace, NULL); + lockdep_on(); trace->max_entries = trace->nr_entries; |