Re: [PATCH] MIPS: Fix crash that occurs when function tracing is enabled

[David Daney <ddaney.cavm@gmail.com>]

On 11/15/2012 03:16 PM, Al Cooper wrote:
> A recent patch changed some irq routines from inlines to functions.
> These routines are called by the tracer code. Now that they're functions,
> if they are compiled for function tracing they will call the tracer
> and crash the system due to infinite recursion. The fix disables
> tracing in these functions by using "notrace" in the function
> definition.
>
> Signed-off-by: Al Cooper <alcooperx@gmail.com>
Makes sense,

Reviewed-by: David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com>


> ---
>   arch/mips/lib/mips-atomic.c |    8 ++++----
>   1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/mips/lib/mips-atomic.c b/arch/mips/lib/mips-atomic.c
> index e091430..cd160be 100644
> --- a/arch/mips/lib/mips-atomic.c
> +++ b/arch/mips/lib/mips-atomic.c
> @@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ __asm__(
>         "  .set    pop                                             \n"
>         "  .endm                                                   \n");
>
> -void arch_local_irq_disable(void)
> +notrace void arch_local_irq_disable(void)
>   {
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