Re: [PATCH RFC] tracepoint: Introduce tracepoint callbacks executing with preempt on

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Fri Apr 27 2018 - 12:22:10 EST


On Fri, 27 Apr 2018 09:14:30 -0700
Joel Fernandes <joelaf@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > Hmmm... Do I need to create a _notrace variant of srcu_read_lock()
> > and srcu_read_unlock()?
>
> That shouldn't be needed. For the rcu_read_lock_sched case, there is a
> preempt_disable which needs to be a notrace, but for the srcu one,
> since we don't do that, I think it should be fine.

Actually, I think I may agree here too. Because the _notrace is for
function tracing, and it shouldn't affect it. If people don't want it
traced, they could add those functions to the list in the notrace file.

-- Steve