Re: [PATCH v10 2/3] tracepoint: Make rcuidle tracepoint callers use SRCU
From: Joel Fernandes
Date: Tue Jul 17 2018 - 16:15:05 EST
On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 08:25:28PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 02:55:46PM -0700, Joel Fernandes wrote:
> > + /* keep srcu and sched-rcu usage consistent */ \
> > + preempt_disable_notrace(); \
> > + \
> > + /* \
> > + * For rcuidle callers, use srcu since sched-rcu \
> > + * doesn't work from the idle path. \
> > + */ \
> > + if (rcuidle) \
> > + idx = srcu_read_lock_notrace(&tracepoint_srcu); \
> > + else \
> > + rcu_read_lock_sched_notrace(); \
>
> That else is completely superfluous. rcu_read_lock_sched_notrace() :=
> prempt_disable_notrace().
Yes, sorry I missed this in your original idea. Will do it this way and
repost. Thanks Peter!
- Joel