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tracing: Remove WARN_ON in start_thread() 

commit 310e3a4b5a4fc718a72201c1e4cf5c64ac6f5442 upstream.

This patch reverts commit 978defee11 ("tracing: Do a WARN_ON()
 if start_thread() in hwlat is called when thread exists")

.start hook can be legally called several times if according
tracer is stopped

screen window 1
[root@localhost ~]# echo 1 > /sys/kernel/tracing/events/kmem/kfree/enable
[root@localhost ~]# echo 1 > /sys/kernel/tracing/options/pause-on-trace
[root@localhost ~]# less -F /sys/kernel/tracing/trace

screen window 2
[root@localhost ~]# cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/tracing_on
0
[root@localhost ~]# echo hwlat >  /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/current_tracer
[root@localhost ~]# echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/tracing_on
[root@localhost ~]# cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/tracing_on
0
[root@localhost ~]# echo 2 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/tracing_on

triggers warning in dmesg:
WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 1403 at kernel/trace/trace_hwlat.c:371 hwlat_tracer_start+0xc9/0xd0

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/bd4d3e70-400d-9c82-7b73-a2d695e86b58@virtuozzo.com

Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 978defee11 ("tracing: Do a WARN_ON() if start_thread() in hwlat is called when thread exists")
Signed-off-by: Vasily Averin <vvs@virtuozzo.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Vasily Averin 2020-11-18 15:05:20 +03:00 committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
parent 6ad995b851
commit 07434172c5
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@ -355,7 +355,7 @@ static int start_kthread(struct trace_array *tr)
struct task_struct *kthread;
int next_cpu;
if (WARN_ON(hwlat_kthread))
if (hwlat_kthread)
return 0;
/* Just pick the first CPU on first iteration */