Stop tracing when we read the clock, since tracing will also want to read the clock, and recurse indefinitely. Based on a similar patch for Xen from Jeremy Fitzhardinge. Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@xxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/kernel/kvmclock.c | 5 +++-- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/kvmclock.c b/arch/x86/kernel/kvmclock.c index c1a0188..44842d7 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/kvmclock.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/kvmclock.c @@ -74,9 +74,10 @@ static cycle_t kvm_clock_read(void) struct pvclock_vcpu_time_info *src; cycle_t ret; - src = &get_cpu_var(hv_clock); + preempt_disable_notrace(); + src = &__get_cpu_var(hv_clock); ret = pvclock_clocksource_read(src); - put_cpu_var(hv_clock); + preempt_enable_notrace(); return ret; } -- 1.7.7.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html