Re: [PATCH v3 13/22] tracing: Remove regular RCU context for _rcuidle tracepoints (again)

[Steven Rostedt]

On Wed, 19 Feb 2020 18:05:07 +0100
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 05:47:36PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 08:43:56AM -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote:  
> > > On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 03:47:37PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:  
> > > > Effectively revert commit 865e63b04e9b2 ("tracing: Add back in
> > > > rcu_irq_enter/exit_irqson() for rcuidle tracepoints") now that we've
> > > > taught perf how to deal with not having an RCU context provided.
> > > > 
> > > > Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > ---
> > > >  include/linux/tracepoint.h |    8 ++------
> > > >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> > > > 
> > > > --- a/include/linux/tracepoint.h
> > > > +++ b/include/linux/tracepoint.h
> > > > @@ -179,10 +179,8 @@ static inline struct tracepoint *tracepo  
> > > 
> > > Shouldn't we also get rid of this line above?
> > > 
> > > 		int __maybe_unused __idx = 0;				\
> > >   
> > 
> > Probably makes a lot of sense, lemme fix that!  
> 
> Oh wait, no! SRCU is the one that remains !

Correct, and if rcuidle is not set, and this is a macro, the SRCU
portion is compiled out.

-- Steve