oprofile: protect from not being in an IRQ context

http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/4/27/285

Protect against dereferencing regs when it's NULL, and
force a magic number into pc to prevent too deep processing.
This approach permits the dropped samples to be tallied as
invalid Instruction Pointer events.

e.g. output from about 15mins at 10kHz sample rate:
Nr. samples received: 2565380
Nr. samples lost invalid pc: 4

Signed-off-by: Phil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>

diff --git a/drivers/oprofile/cpu_buffer.c b/drivers/oprofile/cpu_buffer.c
index 0ac8b06..219f79e 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/oprofile/cpu_buffer.c
+++ b/drivers/oprofile/cpu_buffer.c
@@ -319,8 +319,16 @@ void oprofile_add_ext_sample(unsigned long pc, struct pt_regs * const regs,
 
 void oprofile_add_sample(struct pt_regs * const regs, unsigned long event)
 {
-       int is_kernel = !user_mode(regs);
-       unsigned long pc = profile_pc(regs);
+       int is_kernel;
+       unsigned long pc;
+
+       if (likely(regs)) {
+               is_kernel = !user_mode(regs);
+               pc = profile_pc(regs);
+       } else {
+               is_kernel = 0;    /* This value will not be used */
+               pc = ESCAPE_CODE; /* as this causes an early return. */
+       }
 
        __oprofile_add_ext_sample(pc, regs, event, is_kernel);
 }