Re: linux-next: manual merge of the rcu tree with the ftrace tree

From: Frederic Weisbecker

Date: Fri Nov 14 2025 - 09:48:55 EST


Le Fri, Nov 14, 2025 at 07:42:55AM -0500, Steven Rostedt a écrit :
> On Fri, 14 Nov 2025 13:52:26 +1100
> Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Today's linux-next merge of the rcu tree got a conflict in:
> >
> > kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c
> >
> > between commit:
> >
> > a544d9a66bdf ("tracing: Have syscall trace events read user space string")
> >
> > from the ftrace tree and commit:
> >
> > 35587dbc58dd ("tracing: Guard __DECLARE_TRACE() use of __DO_TRACE_CALL() with SRCU-fast")
> >
> > from the rcu tree.
> >
> > I fixed it up (Maybe - see below) and can carry the fix as necessary. This
> > is now fixed as far as linux-next is concerned, but any non trivial
> > conflicts should be mentioned to your upstream maintainer when your tree
> > is submitted for merging. You may also want to consider cooperating
> > with the maintainer of the conflicting tree to minimise any particularly
> > complex conflicts.
>
> Thanks for the update.
>
> >
>
> > diff --cc kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c
> > index e96d0063cbcf,3f699b198c56..000000000000
> > --- a/kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c
> > +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c
> > @@@ -878,6 -322,8 +890,7 @@@ static void ftrace_syscall_enter(void *
> > * buffer and per-cpu data require preemption to be disabled.
> > */
> > might_fault();
> > + preempt_rt_guard();
> > - guard(preempt_notrace)();
>
> My code made it so that preemption is not needed here but is moved later
> down for the logic that does the reading of user space data.
>
> Note, it must have preemption disabled for all configs (including RT).
> Otherwise, the data it has can get corrupted.
>
> Paul, can you change it so that you *do not* touch this file?

Ok, I've zapped the commit for now until we sort this out.

Thanks.

--
Frederic Weisbecker
SUSE Labs