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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	linux-kernel <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>,
	paulmck <paulmck@kernel.org>,
	Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>,
	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 16:46:45 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200211154645.GX14914@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <504801580.617591.1581435278202.JavaMail.zimbra@efficios.com>

On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 10:34:38AM -0500, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> 
> I'm puzzled by this function. It does:
> 
> perf_tp_event(...)
> {
>      hlist_for_each_entry_rcu(event, head, hlist_entry) {
>          ...
>      }
>      if (task && task != current) {
>          rcu_read_lock();
>          ... = rcu_dereference();
>          list_for_each_entry_rcu(...) {
>              ....
>          }
>          rcu_read_unlock();
>      }
> }
> 
> What is the purpose of the rcu_read_lock/unlock within the if (),
> considering that there is already an hlist rcu iteration just before ?
> It seems to assume that a RCU read-side of some kind of already
> ongoing.

IIRC the hlist_for_each_entry_rcu() uses the RCU stuff from the
tracepoint API, while the stuff inside the if() uses regular RCU.

Them were note the same one -- tracepoints used rcu-sched, perf used
rcu.

  reply	other threads:[~2020-02-11 15:47 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 [this message]
2020-02-11 16:02     ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2020-02-11 15:34 ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-02-11 16:18   ` Steven Rostedt
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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