From: Vasily Averin <vvs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 310e3a4b5a4fc718a72201c1e4cf5c64ac6f5442 upstream. This patch reverts commit 978defee11a5 ("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@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fixes: 978defee11a5 ("tracing: Do a WARN_ON() if start_thread() in hwlat is called when thread exists") Signed-off-by: Vasily Averin <vvs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/trace/trace_hwlat.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/kernel/trace/trace_hwlat.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_hwlat.c @@ -355,7 +355,7 @@ static int start_kthread(struct trace_ar 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 */