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From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	"Joel Fernandes (Google)" <joel@joelfernandes.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	"Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@embeddedor.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>,
	Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>,
	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>,
	Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] tracing/perf: Move rcu_irq_enter/exit_irqson() to perf trace point hook
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2020 11:18:28 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200211111828.48058768@gandalf.local.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200211153452.GW14914@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net>

On Tue, 11 Feb 2020 16:34:52 +0100
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:

> > +		if (unlikely(in_nmi()))
> > +			goto out;  
> 
> unless I'm mistaken, we can simply do rcu_nmi_enter() in this case, and
> rcu_nmi_exit() on the other end.
> 
> > +		rcu_irq_enter_irqson();

The thing is, I don't think this can ever happen. We've had in the
tracepoint.h:

		/* srcu can't be used from NMI */			\
		WARN_ON_ONCE(rcuidle && in_nmi());			\

And this has yet to trigger.

-- Steve

  reply	other threads:[~2020-02-11 16:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-02-11 14:50 [PATCH v2] tracing/perf: Move rcu_irq_enter/exit_irqson() to perf trace point hook Steven Rostedt
2020-02-11 15:34 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2020-02-11 15:46   ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-02-11 16:02     ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2020-02-11 15:34 ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-02-11 16:18   ` Steven Rostedt [this message]
2020-02-11 16:27     ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2020-02-11 16:35       ` Steven Rostedt
2020-02-11 17:29     ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-02-11 17:32       ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-02-11 18:54         ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-02-12  8:05           ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-02-12  9:05             ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-02-11 17:35       ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2020-02-12  8:02         ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-02-12 15:14           ` Mathieu Desnoyers

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