Re: [PATCH] tracepoint: Remove SRCU protection

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Fri Oct 04 2024 - 06:04:50 EST


On Thu, Oct 03, 2024 at 06:42:20PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> With the removal of the trace_*_rcuidle() tracepoints, there is no reason
> to protect tracepoints with SRCU. The reason the SRCU protection was
> added, was because it can protect tracepoints when RCU is not "watching".
> Now that tracepoints are only used when RCU is watching, remove the SRCU
> protection. It just made things more complex and confusing anyway.
>
> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---

Nice!

Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>