[PATCH 4.14 060/173] ftrace: Add comment to why rcu_dereference_sched() is open coded

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

From: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>

[ Upstream commit 16052dd5bdfa16dbe18d8c1d4cde2ddab9d23177 ]

Because the function graph tracer can execute in sections where RCU is not
"watching", the rcu_dereference_sched() for the has needs to be open coded.
This is fine because the RCU "flavor" of the ftrace hash is protected by
its own RCU handling (it does its own little synchronization on every CPU
and does not rely on RCU sched).

Acked-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 kernel/trace/trace.h | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.h b/kernel/trace/trace.h
index 757bb1bffed99..99af95e294d8d 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace.h
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace.h
@@ -879,6 +879,11 @@ static inline int ftrace_graph_addr(struct ftrace_graph_ent *trace)
 
 	preempt_disable_notrace();
 
+	/*
+	 * Have to open code "rcu_dereference_sched()" because the
+	 * function graph tracer can be called when RCU is not
+	 * "watching".
+	 */
 	hash = rcu_dereference_protected(ftrace_graph_hash, !preemptible());
 
 	if (ftrace_hash_empty(hash)) {
@@ -926,6 +931,11 @@ static inline int ftrace_graph_notrace_addr(unsigned long addr)
 
 	preempt_disable_notrace();
 
+	/*
+	 * Have to open code "rcu_dereference_sched()" because the
+	 * function graph tracer can be called when RCU is not
+	 * "watching".
+	 */
 	notrace_hash = rcu_dereference_protected(ftrace_graph_notrace_hash,
 						 !preemptible());
 
-- 
2.20.1