From: Guo Ren <guoren@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> It will cause warning messages: echo function_graph > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/current_tracer [ 47.691397] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [ 47.692899] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 11 at arch/riscv/kernel/patch.c:63 patch_insn_write+0x182/0x19a [ 47.694483] Modules linked in: [ 47.695754] CPU: 0 PID: 11 Comm: migration/0 Not tainted 5.9.0-11367-g1054335 #132 [ 47.698228] epc: ffffffe000204530 ra : ffffffe00020452c sp : ffffffe0023ffc20 gp : ffffffe0013e1fe0 tp : ffffffe0023e4e00 t0 : 0000000000000000 [ 47.701872] t1 : 000000000000000e t2 : 000000000000001b s0 : ffffffe0023ffc70 s1 : ffffffe000206850 a0 : 0000000000000000 a1 : ffffffffffffffff [ 47.705550] a2 : 0000000000000000 a3 : ffffffe03af7c5e8 a4 : 0000000000000000 a5 : 0000000000000000 a6 : 0000000000000000 a7 : 00000000150b02d8 [ 47.709159] s2 : 0000000000000008 s3 : 0000000000000858 s4 : ffffffe0023ffc98 s5 : 0000000000000850 s6 : 0000000000000003 s7 : 0000000000000002 [ 47.714135] s8 : 0000000000000004 s9 : 0000000000000001 s10: 0000000000000001 s11: 0000000000000003 t3 : ffffffffffffe000 t4 : 0000000000d86254 [ 47.716574] t5 : 0000000000000005 t6 : 0000000000040000status: 0000000000000100 badaddr: 0000000000000000 cause: 0000000000000003 [ 47.720019] CPU: 0 PID: 11 Comm: migration/0 Not tainted 5.9.0-11367-g1054335 #132 [ 47.722074] Call Trace: [ 47.722561] [<ffffffe000203c88>] walk_stackframe+0x0/0xc2 [ 47.724608] [<ffffffe000b2020a>] show_stack+0x46/0x52 [ 47.726246] [<ffffffe000b23c24>] dump_stack+0x90/0xb6 [ 47.727672] [<ffffffe00020c9c4>] __warn+0x98/0xfa [ 47.729131] [<ffffffe0005f4be0>] report_bug+0xaa/0x11e [ 47.730624] [<ffffffe000203b74>] do_trap_break+0x96/0xfe [ 47.732448] [<ffffffe000201daa>] ret_from_exception+0x0/0x14 [ 47.734341] [<ffffffe00020452c>] patch_insn_write+0x17e/0x19a [ 47.737235] irq event stamp: 39 [ 47.738521] hardirqs last enabled at (39): [<ffffffe000201d0a>] _save_context+0xa2/0xe6 [ 47.741055] hardirqs last disabled at (38): [<ffffffe0002c2404>] multi_cpu_stop+0x130/0x166 [ 47.743551] softirqs last enabled at (0): [<ffffffe00020a4d2>] copy_process+0x430/0x1316 [ 47.746031] softirqs last disabled at (0): [<0000000000000000>] 0x0 [ 47.748617] ---[ end trace 88a1054faa6524ef ]--- Because the path of stop_machine(__ftrace_modify_code)-> ftrace_modify_all_code->...->patch_insn_write has no pair of lock&unlock text_mutex, so we shouldn't put assert here. Signed-off-by: Guo Ren <guoren@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/riscv/kernel/patch.c | 7 ------- 1 file changed, 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/patch.c b/arch/riscv/kernel/patch.c index 0b55287..2ee5063 100644 --- a/arch/riscv/kernel/patch.c +++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/patch.c @@ -55,13 +55,6 @@ static int patch_insn_write(void *addr, const void *insn, size_t len) bool across_pages = (((uintptr_t) addr & ~PAGE_MASK) + len) > PAGE_SIZE; int ret; - /* - * Before reaching here, it was expected to lock the text_mutex - * already, so we don't need to give another lock here and could - * ensure that it was safe between each cores. - */ - lockdep_assert_held(&text_mutex); - if (across_pages) patch_map(addr + len, FIX_TEXT_POKE1); -- 2.7.4
