x86/cpu/vmware: Do not trace vmware_sched_clock()
authorSteven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Fri, 9 Nov 2018 20:22:07 +0000 (15:22 -0500)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 21 Nov 2018 08:19:19 +0000 (09:19 +0100)
commite73cb6a6da2d35d8b37f9ab38a15f520398a330d
tree3080479170b529913f189523ebf546e955ebb971
parent3cbdaf131c90279e5960e77e7bb8a5ea095b102e
x86/cpu/vmware: Do not trace vmware_sched_clock()

commit 15035388439f892017d38b05214d3cda6578af64 upstream.

When running function tracing on a Linux guest running on VMware
Workstation, the guest would crash. This is due to tracing of the
sched_clock internal call of the VMware vmware_sched_clock(), which
causes an infinite recursion within the tracing code (clock calls must
not be traced).

Make vmware_sched_clock() not traced by ftrace.

Fixes: 80e9a4f21fd7c ("x86/vmware: Add paravirt sched clock")
Reported-by: GwanYeong Kim <gy741.kim@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
CC: Alok Kataria <akataria@vmware.com>
CC: GwanYeong Kim <gy741.kim@gmail.com>
CC: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
CC: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
CC: x86-ml <x86@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181109152207.4d3e7d70@gandalf.local.home
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/vmware.c