Re: [PATCH] tracing: use __this_cpu_read() in trace_buffered_event_enable()

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Thu Sep 17 2020 - 20:31:33 EST


Sorry for the late reply (been busy with Linux Plumbers, took a
vacation, and then trying to catch up on all my email for the last two
months!)

But I just wanted to let you know that I added this to my queue.

Thanks!

-- Steve


On Thu, 13 Aug 2020 19:28:03 +0800
Xianting Tian <tian.xianting@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> The code is executed with preemption disabled, so it's
> safe to use __this_cpu_read().
>
> Signed-off-by: Xianting Tian <tian.xianting@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> kernel/trace/trace.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c
> index bb6226972..7d0d71ce9 100644
> --- a/kernel/trace/trace.c
> +++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c
> @@ -2514,7 +2514,7 @@ void trace_buffered_event_enable(void)
>
> preempt_disable();
> if (cpu == smp_processor_id() &&
> - this_cpu_read(trace_buffered_event) !=
> + __this_cpu_read(trace_buffered_event) !=
> per_cpu(trace_buffered_event, cpu))
> WARN_ON_ONCE(1);
> preempt_enable();