----- On Nov 16, 2020, at 4:02 PM, rostedt rost...@goodmis.org wrote:

> On Mon, 16 Nov 2020 15:44:37 -0500
> Steven Rostedt <rost...@goodmis.org> wrote:
> 
>> If you use a stub function, it shouldn't affect anything. And the worse
>> that would happen is that you have a slight overhead of calling the stub
>> until you can properly remove the callback.
> 
> Something like this:
> 
> (haven't compiled it yet, I'm about to though).
> 
> -- Steve
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/tracepoint.c b/kernel/tracepoint.c
> index 3f659f855074..8eab40f9d388 100644
> --- a/kernel/tracepoint.c
> +++ b/kernel/tracepoint.c
> @@ -53,10 +53,16 @@ struct tp_probes {
>       struct tracepoint_func probes[];
> };
> 
> -static inline void *allocate_probes(int count)
> +/* Called in removal of a func but failed to allocate a new tp_funcs */
> +static void tp_stub_func(void)

I'm still not sure whether it's OK to call a (void) function with arguments.

> +{
> +     return;
> +}
> +
> +static inline void *allocate_probes(int count, gfp_t extra_flags)
> {
>       struct tp_probes *p  = kmalloc(struct_size(p, probes, count),
> -                                    GFP_KERNEL);
> +                                    GFP_KERNEL | extra_flags);
>       return p == NULL ? NULL : p->probes;
> }
> 
> @@ -150,7 +156,7 @@ func_add(struct tracepoint_func **funcs, struct
> tracepoint_func *tp_func,
>               }
>       }
>       /* + 2 : one for new probe, one for NULL func */
> -     new = allocate_probes(nr_probes + 2);
> +     new = allocate_probes(nr_probes + 2, 0);
>       if (new == NULL)
>               return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
>       if (old) {
> @@ -188,8 +194,9 @@ static void *func_remove(struct tracepoint_func **funcs,
>       /* (N -> M), (N > 1, M >= 0) probes */
>       if (tp_func->func) {
>               for (nr_probes = 0; old[nr_probes].func; nr_probes++) {
> -                     if (old[nr_probes].func == tp_func->func &&
> -                          old[nr_probes].data == tp_func->data)
> +                     if ((old[nr_probes].func == tp_func->func &&
> +                          old[nr_probes].data == tp_func->data) ||
> +                         old[nr_probes].func == tp_stub_func)
>                               nr_del++;
>               }
>       }
> @@ -207,15 +214,20 @@ static void *func_remove(struct tracepoint_func **funcs,
>               int j = 0;
>               /* N -> M, (N > 1, M > 0) */
>               /* + 1 for NULL */
> -             new = allocate_probes(nr_probes - nr_del + 1);
> -             if (new == NULL)
> -                     return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
> -             for (i = 0; old[i].func; i++)
> -                     if (old[i].func != tp_func->func
> -                                     || old[i].data != tp_func->data)
> -                             new[j++] = old[i];
> -             new[nr_probes - nr_del].func = NULL;
> -             *funcs = new;
> +             new = allocate_probes(nr_probes - nr_del + 1, __GFP_NOFAIL);
> +             if (new) {
> +                     for (i = 0; old[i].func; i++)
> +                             if (old[i].func != tp_func->func
> +                                 || old[i].data != tp_func->data)

as you point out in your reply, skip tp_stub_func here too.

> +                                     new[j++] = old[i];
> +                     new[nr_probes - nr_del].func = NULL;
> +             } else {
> +                     for (i = 0; old[i].func; i++)
> +                             if (old[i].func == tp_func->func &&
> +                                 old[i].data == tp_func->data)
> +                                     old[i].func = tp_stub_func;

I think you'll want a WRITE_ONCE(old[i].func, tp_stub_func) here, matched
with a READ_ONCE() in __DO_TRACE. This introduces a new situation where the
func pointer can be updated and loaded concurrently.

> +             }
> +             *funcs = old;

The line above seems wrong for the successful allocate_probe case. You will 
likely
want *funcs = new on successful allocation, and *funcs = old for the failure 
case.

Thanks,

Mathieu

>       }
>       debug_print_probes(*funcs);
>       return old;
> @@ -300,6 +312,10 @@ static int tracepoint_remove_func(struct tracepoint *tp,
>               return PTR_ERR(old);
>       }
> 
> +     if (tp_funcs == old)
> +             /* Failed allocating new tp_funcs, replaced func with stub */
> +             return 0;
> +
>       if (!tp_funcs) {
>               /* Removed last function */
>               if (tp->unregfunc && static_key_enabled(&tp->key))

-- 
Mathieu Desnoyers
EfficiOS Inc.
http://www.efficios.com

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