patches/relay-fix-timer-madness.patch

From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2009 08:44:07 -0500
Subject: relay: fix timer madness

remove timer calls (!!!) from deep within the tracing infrastructure.
This was totally bogus code that can cause lockups and worse.  Poll
the buffer every 2 jiffies for now.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

---
 kernel/relay.c |   14 +++++---------
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

Index: linux-stable/kernel/relay.c
===================================================================
--- linux-stable.orig/kernel/relay.c
+++ linux-stable/kernel/relay.c
@@ -339,6 +339,10 @@ static void wakeup_readers(unsigned long
 {
 	struct rchan_buf *buf = (struct rchan_buf *)data;
 	wake_up_interruptible(&buf->read_wait);
+	/*
+	 * Stupid polling for now:
+	 */
+	mod_timer(&buf->timer, jiffies + 1);
 }
 
 /**
@@ -356,6 +360,7 @@ static void __relay_reset(struct rchan_b
 		init_waitqueue_head(&buf->read_wait);
 		kref_init(&buf->kref);
 		setup_timer(&buf->timer, wakeup_readers, (unsigned long)buf);
+		mod_timer(&buf->timer, jiffies + 1);
 	} else
 		del_timer_sync(&buf->timer);
 
@@ -739,15 +744,6 @@ size_t relay_switch_subbuf(struct rchan_
 		else
 			buf->early_bytes += buf->chan->subbuf_size -
 					    buf->padding[old_subbuf];
-		smp_mb();
-		if (waitqueue_active(&buf->read_wait))
-			/*
-			 * Calling wake_up_interruptible() from here
-			 * will deadlock if we happen to be logging
-			 * from the scheduler (trying to re-grab
-			 * rq->lock), so defer it.
-			 */
-			mod_timer(&buf->timer, jiffies + 1);
 	}
 
 	old = buf->data;