From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-arch <linux-arch@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>,
Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>,
Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>,
dan carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>,
Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 16/27] tracing: Remove regular RCU context for _rcuidle tracepoints (again)
Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2020 16:06:45 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200306160645.07a45d2a@gandalf.local.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <65796626.20397.1583528124078.JavaMail.zimbra@efficios.com>
On Fri, 6 Mar 2020 15:55:24 -0500 (EST)
Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> wrote:
> ----- On Mar 6, 2020, at 3:45 PM, rostedt rostedt@goodmis.org wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 6 Mar 2020 15:22:46 -0500 (EST)
> > Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> wrote:
> >
> >> I agree with the overall approach. Just a bit of nitpicking on the API:
> >>
> >> I understand that the "prio" argument is a separate argument because it can take
> >> many values. However, "rcu" is just a boolean, so I wonder if we should not
> >> rather
> >> introduce a "int flags" with a bitmask enum, e.g.
> >
> > I thought about this approach, but thought it was a bit overkill. As the
> > kernel doesn't have an internal API, I figured we can switch this over to
> > flags when we get another flag to add. Unless you can think of one in the
> > near future.
>
> The additional feature I have in mind for near future would be to register
> a probe which can take a page fault to a "sleepable" tracepoint. This would
> require preemption to be enabled and use of SRCU.
>
> We can always change things when we get there.
Yeah, let's rename it if we get there.
-- Steve
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-03-06 21:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 84+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-02-21 13:34 [PATCH v4 00/27] tracing vs world Peter Zijlstra
2020-02-21 13:34 ` [PATCH v4 01/27] lockdep: Teach lockdep about "USED" <- "IN-NMI" inversions Peter Zijlstra
2020-02-21 15:08 ` Steven Rostedt
2020-02-21 20:25 ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-02-21 20:28 ` Steven Rostedt
2020-02-21 22:01 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2020-02-22 3:08 ` Joel Fernandes
2020-02-24 10:10 ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-02-25 2:12 ` Joel Fernandes
2020-03-20 12:58 ` [tip: locking/core] " tip-bot2 for Peter Zijlstra
2020-02-21 13:34 ` [PATCH v4 02/27] hardirq/nmi: Allow nested nmi_enter() Peter Zijlstra
2020-02-21 22:21 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2020-02-24 12:13 ` Petr Mladek
2020-02-25 1:30 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2020-02-24 16:13 ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-02-25 3:09 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2020-02-25 15:41 ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-02-25 16:21 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2020-02-25 22:10 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2020-02-27 9:10 ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-02-27 13:34 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2020-02-21 13:34 ` [PATCH v4 03/27] x86/entry: Flip _TIF_SIGPENDING and _TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME handling Peter Zijlstra
2020-02-21 16:14 ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-02-21 13:34 ` [PATCH v4 04/27] x86/mce: Delete ist_begin_non_atomic() Peter Zijlstra
2020-02-21 19:07 ` Andy Lutomirski
2020-02-21 23:40 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2020-02-21 13:34 ` [PATCH v4 05/27] x86: Replace ist_enter() with nmi_enter() Peter Zijlstra
2020-02-21 19:05 ` Andy Lutomirski
2020-02-21 20:22 ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-02-24 10:43 ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-02-24 16:27 ` Steven Rostedt
2020-02-24 16:34 ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-02-24 16:47 ` Steven Rostedt
2020-02-24 21:31 ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-02-24 22:02 ` Steven Rostedt
2020-02-26 10:25 ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-02-26 13:16 ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-02-26 10:27 ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-02-26 15:20 ` Steven Rostedt
2020-03-07 1:53 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2020-02-21 13:34 ` [PATCH v4 06/27] x86/doublefault: Remove memmove() call Peter Zijlstra
2020-02-21 19:10 ` Andy Lutomirski
2020-02-21 13:34 ` [PATCH v4 07/27] rcu: Make RCU IRQ enter/exit functions rely on in_nmi() Peter Zijlstra
2020-02-26 0:23 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2020-02-21 13:34 ` [PATCH v4 08/27] rcu/kprobes: Comment why rcu_nmi_enter() is marked NOKPROBE Peter Zijlstra
2020-02-26 0:27 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2020-02-21 13:34 ` [PATCH v4 09/27] rcu: Rename rcu_irq_{enter,exit}_irqson() Peter Zijlstra
2020-02-21 20:21 ` Steven Rostedt
2020-02-24 10:24 ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-02-26 0:35 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2020-02-21 13:34 ` [PATCH v4 10/27] rcu: Mark rcu_dynticks_curr_cpu_in_eqs() inline Peter Zijlstra
2020-02-21 13:34 ` [PATCH v4 11/27] rcu,tracing: Create trace_rcu_{enter,exit}() Peter Zijlstra
2020-03-06 11:50 ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-03-06 12:40 ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-02-21 13:34 ` [PATCH v4 12/27] sched,rcu,tracing: Avoid tracing before in_nmi() is correct Peter Zijlstra
2020-02-21 13:34 ` [PATCH v4 13/27] x86,tracing: Add comments to do_nmi() Peter Zijlstra
2020-02-21 13:34 ` [PATCH v4 14/27] perf,tracing: Prepare the perf-trace interface for RCU changes Peter Zijlstra
2020-02-21 13:34 ` [PATCH v4 15/27] tracing: Employ trace_rcu_{enter,exit}() Peter Zijlstra
2020-02-21 13:34 ` [PATCH v4 16/27] tracing: Remove regular RCU context for _rcuidle tracepoints (again) Peter Zijlstra
2020-03-06 10:43 ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-03-06 11:31 ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-03-06 15:51 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-03-06 16:04 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2020-03-06 17:55 ` Steven Rostedt
2020-03-06 18:45 ` Joel Fernandes
2020-03-06 18:59 ` Steven Rostedt
2020-03-06 19:14 ` Joel Fernandes
2020-03-06 20:22 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2020-03-06 20:45 ` Steven Rostedt
2020-03-06 20:55 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2020-03-06 21:06 ` Steven Rostedt [this message]
2020-03-06 23:10 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-03-06 17:21 ` Joel Fernandes
2020-02-21 13:34 ` [PATCH v4 17/27] perf,tracing: Allow function tracing when !RCU Peter Zijlstra
2020-02-21 13:34 ` [PATCH v4 18/27] x86/int3: Ensure that poke_int3_handler() is not traced Peter Zijlstra
2020-02-21 13:34 ` [PATCH v4 19/27] locking/atomics, kcsan: Add KCSAN instrumentation Peter Zijlstra
2020-02-21 13:34 ` [PATCH v4 20/27] asm-generic/atomic: Use __always_inline for pure wrappers Peter Zijlstra
2020-02-21 13:34 ` [PATCH v4 21/27] asm-generic/atomic: Use __always_inline for fallback wrappers Peter Zijlstra
2020-02-21 13:34 ` [PATCH v4 22/27] compiler: Simple READ/WRITE_ONCE() implementations Peter Zijlstra
2020-02-21 13:34 ` [PATCH v4 23/27] locking/atomics: Flip fallbacks and instrumentation Peter Zijlstra
2020-02-21 13:34 ` [PATCH v4 24/27] x86/int3: Avoid atomic instrumentation Peter Zijlstra
2020-02-21 13:34 ` [PATCH v4 25/27] lib/bsearch: Provide __always_inline variant Peter Zijlstra
2020-02-21 13:34 ` [PATCH v4 26/27] x86/int3: Inline bsearch() Peter Zijlstra
2020-02-21 13:34 ` [PATCH v4 27/27] x86/int3: Ensure that poke_int3_handler() is not sanitized Peter Zijlstra
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