ftrace: force pass of preemptoff selftest

Impact: preemptoff not tested in selftest

Due to the BKL not being preemptable anymore, the selftest of the
preemptoff code can not be tested. It requires that it is called
with preemption enabled, but since the BKL is held, that is no
longer the case.

This patch simply skips those tests if it detects that the context
is not preemptable. The following will now show up in the tests:

Testing tracer preemptoff: can not test ... force PASSED
Testing tracer preemptirqsoff: can not test ... force PASSED

When the BKL is removed, or it becomes preemptable once again, then
the tests will be performed.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

1 files changed, 26 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_selftest.c b/kernel/trace/trace_selftest.c
index ea4e5d3b15d..0728a105dcc 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_selftest.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_selftest.c
@@ -257,6 +257,19 @@ trace_selftest_startup_preemptoff(struct tracer *trace, struct trace_array *tr)
 	unsigned long count;
 	int ret;
 
+	/*
+	 * Now that the big kernel lock is no longer preemptable,
+	 * and this is called with the BKL held, it will always
+	 * fail. If preemption is already disabled, simply
+	 * pass the test. When the BKL is removed, or becomes
+	 * preemptible again, we will once again test this,
+	 * so keep it in.
+	 */
+	if (preempt_count()) {
+		printk(KERN_CONT "can not test ... force ");
+		return 0;
+	}
+
 	/* start the tracing */
 	trace->init(tr);
 	/* reset the max latency */
@@ -293,6 +306,19 @@ trace_selftest_startup_preemptirqsoff(struct tracer *trace, struct trace_array *
 	unsigned long count;
 	int ret;
 
+	/*
+	 * Now that the big kernel lock is no longer preemptable,
+	 * and this is called with the BKL held, it will always
+	 * fail. If preemption is already disabled, simply
+	 * pass the test. When the BKL is removed, or becomes
+	 * preemptible again, we will once again test this,
+	 * so keep it in.
+	 */
+	if (preempt_count()) {
+		printk(KERN_CONT "can not test ... force ");
+		return 0;
+	}
+
 	/* start the tracing */
 	trace->init(tr);