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    tracing: Use trace_sched_process_free() instead of exit() for pid tracing · afcab636
    Steven Rostedt (VMware) authored
    On exit, if a process is preempted after the trace_sched_process_exit()
    tracepoint but before the process is done exiting, then when it gets
    scheduled in, the function tracers will not filter it properly against the
    function tracing pid filters.
    
    That is because the function tracing pid filters hooks to the
    sched_process_exit() tracepoint to remove the exiting task's pid from the
    filter list. Because the filtering happens at the sched_switch tracepoint,
    when the exiting task schedules back in to finish up the exit, it will no
    longer be in the function pid filtering tables.
    
    This was noticeable in the notrace self tests on a preemptable kernel, as
    the tests would fail as it exits and preempted after being taken off the
    notrace filter table and on scheduling back in it would not be in the
    notrace list, and then the ending of the exit function would trace. The test
    detected this and would fail.
    
    Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
    Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
    Fixes: 1e10486f ("ftrace: Add 'function-fork' trace option")
    Fixes: c37775d5 ("tracing: Add infrastructure to allow set_event_pid to follow children"
    Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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