[3.11.y.z extended stable] Patch "ftrace: Initialize the ftrace profiler for each possible cpu" has been added to staging queue

[Luis Henriques]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    ftrace: Initialize the ftrace profiler for each possible cpu

to the linux-3.11.y-queue branch of the 3.11.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.11.y-queue

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.11.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From ec82524ff069de99eb00f3698c24725b69b740e9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Miao Xie <miaox at cn.fujitsu.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2013 15:20:01 +0800
Subject: ftrace: Initialize the ftrace profiler for each possible cpu

commit c4602c1c818bd6626178d6d3fcc152d9f2f48ac0 upstream.

Ftrace currently initializes only the online CPUs. This implementation has
two problems:
- If we online a CPU after we enable the function profile, and then run the
  test, we will lose the trace information on that CPU.
  Steps to reproduce:
  # echo 0 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/online
  # cd <debugfs>/tracing/
  # echo <some function name> >> set_ftrace_filter
  # echo 1 > function_profile_enabled
  # echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/online
  # run test
- If we offline a CPU before we enable the function profile, we will not clear
  the trace information when we enable the function profile. It will trouble
  the users.
  Steps to reproduce:
  # cd <debugfs>/tracing/
  # echo <some function name> >> set_ftrace_filter
  # echo 1 > function_profile_enabled
  # run test
  # cat trace_stat/function*
  # echo 0 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/online
  # echo 0 > function_profile_enabled
  # echo 1 > function_profile_enabled
  # cat trace_stat/function*
  # run test
  # cat trace_stat/function*

So it is better that we initialize the ftrace profiler for each possible cpu
every time we enable the function profile instead of just the online ones.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1387178401-10619-1-git-send-email-miaox@cn.fujitsu.com

Signed-off-by: Miao Xie <miaox at cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt at goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 kernel/trace/ftrace.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
index 859c6d9..f1dd607 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
@@ -775,7 +775,7 @@ static int ftrace_profile_init(void)
 	int cpu;
 	int ret = 0;

-	for_each_online_cpu(cpu) {
+	for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) {
 		ret = ftrace_profile_init_cpu(cpu);
 		if (ret)
 			break;
--
1.8.3.2