Re: [PATCH] tracing: Have synthetic event test use raw_smp_processor_id()

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Thu Feb 20 2020 - 21:52:40 EST


On Fri, 21 Feb 2020 09:22:30 +0900
Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Thu, 20 Feb 2020 16:14:40 -0600
> Tom Zanussi <zanussi@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Hi Steve,
> >
> > On Thu, 2020-02-20 at 16:29 -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > > From: "Steven Rostedt (VMware)" <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > The test code that tests synthetic event creation pushes in as one of
> > > its
> > > test fields the current CPU using "smp_processor_id()". As this is
> > > just
> > > something to see if the value is correctly passed in, and the actual
> > > CPU
> > > used does not matter, use raw_smp_processor_id(), otherwise with
> > > debug
> > > preemption enabled, a warning happens as the smp_processor_id() is
> > > called
> > > without preemption enabled.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Makes sense - I guess it's simpler than Masami's and fine for this
> > purpose.
> >
> > Reviewed-by: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Hmm, can we reserve ring buffer on CPU1 and commit it on CPU2?
> Shouldn't we disable preemption between them?
>

I don't think it matters. There's nothing that checks it. And if one
was concerned about the content of the CPU, one could always enable
scheduling events and see the task migrate.

-- Steve