On Fri, Mar 06, 2020 at 11:43:35AM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 02:34:32PM +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> > > Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> > > --- > > 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 > > * For rcuidle callers, use srcu since sched-rcu \ > > * doesn't work from the idle path. \ > > */ \ > > - if (rcuidle) { \ > > + if (rcuidle) \ > > __idx = srcu_read_lock_notrace(&tracepoint_srcu);\ > > - rcu_irq_enter_irqsave(); \ > > - } \ > > \ > > it_func_ptr = rcu_dereference_raw((tp)->funcs); \ > > \ > > @@ -194,10 +192,8 @@ static inline struct tracepoint *tracepo > > } while ((++it_func_ptr)->func); \ > > } \ > > \ > > - if (rcuidle) { \ > > - rcu_irq_exit_irqsave(); \ > > + if (rcuidle) \ > > srcu_read_unlock_notrace(&tracepoint_srcu, __idx);\ > > - } \ > > \ > > preempt_enable_notrace(); \ > > } while (0) > > So what happens when BPF registers for these tracepoints? BPF very much > wants RCU on AFAIU. I suspect we needs something like this... diff --git a/kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c b/kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c index a2f15222f205..67a39dbce0ce 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c +++ b/kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c @@ -1475,11 +1475,13 @@ void bpf_put_raw_tracepoint(struct bpf_raw_event_map *btp) static __always_inline void __bpf_trace_run(struct bpf_prog *prog, u64 *args) { + int rcu_flags = trace_rcu_enter(); rcu_read_lock(); preempt_disable(); (void) BPF_PROG_RUN(prog, args); preempt_enable(); rcu_read_unlock(); + trace_rcu_exit(rcu_flags); } #define UNPACK(...) __VA_ARGS__