Re: [PATCH 3/3] compiler: inline does not imply notrace

[Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com>]

On Nov 29, 2022, at 7:06 AM, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote:

> On Tue, 29 Nov 2022 04:25:38 +0000
> Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>> I will need to further debug it, but this issue does not occur every time.
>> 
>> The kernel didn’t crash exactly - it’s more of a deadlock. I have lockdep
>> enabled, so it is not a deadlock that lockdep knows. Could it be that
>> somehow things just slowed down due to IPIs and mostly-disabled IRQs? I have
>> no idea. I would need to recreate the scenario. 
> 
> You have lockdep enabled and you are running function tracing with stack
> trace on? So you are doing a stack trace on *every* function that is traced?
> 
> I don't think you hit a deadlock, I think you hit a live lock. You could
> possibly slow the system down so much that when an interrupt finishes it's
> time for it to be triggered again, and you never make forward progress.

It might be the issue. Perhaps I have a bug, because my code was supposed to
either enable stack-tracing with selected functions or create a trace all
function but *without* stack-tracing.

Thanks for the pointer and sorry for the noise.

Regards,
Nadav