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The recursion protection of the ring buffer depends on preempt_count() to be correct. But it is possible that the ring buffer gets called after an interrupt comes in but before it updates the preempt_count(). This will trigger a false positive in the recursion code. Use the same trick from the ftrace function callback recursion code which uses a "transition" bit that gets set, to allow for a single recursion for to handle transitions between contexts. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 567cd4da54ff4 ("ring-buffer: User context bit recursion checking") Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.