Re: [PATCH v2] tracing: Make sure RCU is watching before calling a stack trace

[Steven Rostedt]

On Thu, 18 May 2017 15:48:55 +0200 (CEST)
Miroslav Benes <mbenes@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Thu, 18 May 2017, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> 
> > 
> > From: "Steven Rostedt (VMware)" <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > As stack tracing now requires "rcu watching", force RCU to be watching when
> > recording a stack trace.
> > 
> > Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170512172449.879684501@xxxxxxxxxxx
> > 
> > Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > 
> > Changes since v1:
> > 
> >    My testing discovered that the stack trace can be called with
> >    interrupts enabled, which is a no no to have when calling
> >    rcu_irq_enter(). When interrupts are enabled, as with being in an
> >    NMI, RCU will also be watching.  
> 
> Would rcu_irq_enter_irqson() help then? This is what Petr used in a live 
> patching handler.
> 

Yes, that could work too, but I wanted to avoid disabling interrupts if
we didn't have to.

> Your solution works too, of course. Just asking if I am not missing 
> something.
>

Nope, I was just trying to keep the overhead down. As this can be
called by every event enabled, as well as functions being traced. I
figured that local_save_irqs() is faster than a pair of
local_irq_save()/ local_irq_restore() calls.

-- Steve