The tracepoint interface will stop providing regular RCU context; make sure we do it ourselves, since perf makes use of regular RCU protected data. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/events/core.c | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) --- a/kernel/events/core.c +++ b/kernel/events/core.c @@ -8950,6 +8950,7 @@ void perf_tp_event(u16 event_type, u64 c { struct perf_sample_data data; struct perf_event *event; + unsigned long rcu_flags; struct perf_raw_record raw = { .frag = { @@ -8961,6 +8962,8 @@ void perf_tp_event(u16 event_type, u64 c perf_sample_data_init(&data, 0, 0); data.raw = &raw; + rcu_flags = trace_rcu_enter(); + perf_trace_buf_update(record, event_type); hlist_for_each_entry_rcu(event, head, hlist_entry) { @@ -8996,6 +8999,8 @@ void perf_tp_event(u16 event_type, u64 c } perf_swevent_put_recursion_context(rctx); + + trace_rcu_exit(rcu_flags); } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(perf_tp_event);