On Wed, 11 Jul 2018 07:27:44 -0700 "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 09:00:03AM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > > On Wed, 11 Jul 2018 14:49:54 +0200 > > Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 11:21:46AM -0700, Joel Fernandes wrote: > > > > - it_func_ptr = rcu_dereference_sched((tp)->funcs); \ > > > > > > I would convert to rcu_dereference_raw() to appease sparse. The fancy > > > stuff below is pointless if you then turn off all checking. > > > > The problem with doing this is if we use a trace event without the > > proper _idle() or whatever, we wont get a warning that it is used > > incorrectly with lockdep. Or does lockdep still check if "rcu is > > watching" with rcu_dereference_raw()? > > No lockdep checking is done by rcu_dereference_raw(). Correct, but I think we can do this regardless. So Joel please resend with Peter's suggestion. The reason being is because of this: #define __DECLARE_TRACE(name, proto, args, cond, data_proto, data_args) \ extern struct tracepoint __tracepoint_##name; \ static inline void trace_##name(proto) \ { \ if (static_key_false(&__tracepoint_##name.key)) \ __DO_TRACE(&__tracepoint_##name, \ TP_PROTO(data_proto), \ TP_ARGS(data_args), \ TP_CONDITION(cond), 0); \ if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_LOCKDEP) && (cond)) { \ rcu_read_lock_sched_notrace(); \ rcu_dereference_sched(__tracepoint_##name.funcs);\ rcu_read_unlock_sched_notrace(); \ } \ } Because lockdep would only trigger warnings when the tracepoint was enabled and used in a place it shouldn't be, we added the above IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_LOCKDEP) part to test regardless if the the tracepoint was enabled or not. Because we do this, we don't need to have the test in the __DO_TRACE() code itself. That means we can clean up the code as per Peter's suggestion. -- Steve -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kselftest" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html