From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] tracepoints: Do not use call_rcu_sched() before early_initcall()
Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2014 10:18:35 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141214181835.GG5310@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141214131538.7a6c1438@gandalf.local.home>
On Sun, Dec 14, 2014 at 01:15:38PM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Sun, 14 Dec 2014 10:08:54 -0800
> "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Dec 14, 2014 at 11:53:32AM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > > On Sun, 14 Dec 2014 11:41:05 -0500
> > > Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > > From: "Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)" <rostedt@goodmis.org>
> > > >
> > > > In order to move enabling of trace events to just after mm_init(), the
> > > > tracepoint enable code can not use call_rcu_sched() because rcu isn't
> > > > even initialized yet. Since this can only happen before SMP is set up
> > > > (and even before interrupts are set up), there's no reason to use
> > > > call_rcu_sched() at this point.
> > > >
> > > > Instead, create a variable called tracepoint_rcu_safe that gets enabled
> > > > via early_initcall() and if that is not set, free the code directly
> > > > instead of using call_rcu_sched().
> > > >
> > > > This allows us to enable tracepoints early without issues.
> > > >
> > > > Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
> > > > Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> > > > Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
> > > > Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
> >
> > With the addition of read_mostly, and given that I am not going to mess
> > with call_rcu() this late in the 3.19 process without a blazingly good
> > reason:
> >
> > Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>
> Thanks!
>
> > Please note that you can use call_rcu() and friends as soon as rcu_init()
> > returns. The callbacks won't be invoked until early_initcall() time,
> > but they will be properly queued.
> >
> > Please note also that there are places where turning a call_rcu() into
> > a direct function call don't work, even at times when preemption is
> > disabled and there is only one CPU. One example is where single-threaded
> > code uses call_rcu() on a list element of a list that it is traversing
> > within an RCU read-side critical section. A direct call to the RCU
> > callback could potentially destroy the pointers that the traversal was
> > going to use to find the next element. This means that we cannot make
> > call_rcu() do direct calls to the callback, as that would break quite
> > a bit of existing code.
> >
> > Is there some definite point during boot before which you won't need to
> > invoke call_rcu_sched() for tracing? I am guessing "no", but have to ask.
> > I can probably make call_rcu_sched() work arbitrarily early, but it is a
> > bit uglier. And this assumes that irqs_disabled_flags(local_irq_save())
> > returns true during early boot. I would -hope- this would be true! ;-)
>
> With your feed back, and because I would like this to go into 3.19, I
> would like to keep the current patch as is (with the read_mostly
> update, which I'm currently testing). We can always change it later
> after call_rcu() has been changed.
Completely agreed! ;-)
Thanx, Paul
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-12-14 18:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-12-14 16:41 [PATCH 0/3] tracing: Enable tracepoints early and allow printk to use them Steven Rostedt
2014-12-14 16:41 ` [PATCH 1/3] tracepoints: Do not use call_rcu_sched() before early_initcall() Steven Rostedt
2014-12-14 16:53 ` Steven Rostedt
2014-12-14 18:08 ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-12-14 18:15 ` Steven Rostedt
2014-12-14 18:18 ` Paul E. McKenney [this message]
2014-12-14 18:25 ` Steven Rostedt
2014-12-14 20:23 ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-12-14 17:05 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2014-12-14 17:14 ` Steven Rostedt
2014-12-14 17:21 ` Steven Rostedt
2014-12-14 17:29 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2014-12-14 17:44 ` Steven Rostedt
2014-12-14 18:13 ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-12-14 16:41 ` [PATCH 2/3] tracing: Move enabling tracepoints to just after mm_init() Steven Rostedt
2014-12-14 18:14 ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-12-14 18:20 ` Steven Rostedt
2014-12-14 20:26 ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-12-14 16:41 ` [PATCH 3/3] tracing: Add tp_printk cmdline to have tracepoints go to printk() Steven Rostedt
2014-12-14 17:07 ` [PATCH 0/3] tracing: Enable tracepoints early and allow printk to use them Steven Rostedt
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