Re: [RFC][PATCH 03/18 v2] ftrace: Set ftrace internal functiontracing RCU safe

[Paul E. McKenney]

On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 01:11:20AM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> From: "Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)" <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Since none of the internal ftrace function tracing uses RCU in
> their callbacks, it is OK to set the global_ops (the one that
> they all use) to RCU safe.
> 
> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
>  kernel/trace/ftrace.c |    4 +++-
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
> index d61f431..a45deaa 100644
> --- a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
> +++ b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
> @@ -1146,7 +1146,9 @@ static struct ftrace_ops global_ops = {
>  	.func			= ftrace_stub,
>  	.notrace_hash		= EMPTY_HASH,
>  	.filter_hash		= EMPTY_HASH,
> -	.flags			= FTRACE_OPS_FL_RECURSION_SAFE | FTRACE_OPS_FL_INITIALIZED,
> +	.flags			= FTRACE_OPS_FL_RECURSION_SAFE |
> +				  FTRACE_OPS_FL_INITIALIZED |
> +				  FTRACE_OPS_FL_RCU_SAFE,
>  	INIT_REGEX_LOCK(global_ops)
>  };
> 
> -- 
> 1.7.10.4
> 
> 

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