[PATCH] clocksource/drivers/ti-32k: Prevent ftrace recursion

Thomas Gleixner tglx at linutronix.de
Thu Sep 22 06:58:03 PDT 2016


On Thu, 22 Sep 2016, Jisheng Zhang wrote:

> Currently ti-32k can be used as a scheduler clock. We properly marked
> omap_32k_read_sched_clock() as notrace but we then call another
> function ti_32k_read_cycles() that _wasn't_ notrace.
> 
> Having a traceable function in the sched_clock() path leads to a
> recursion within ftrace and a kernel crash.

Kernel crash? Doesn't ftrace core prevent recursion?
 
Thanks,

	tglx



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