linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/5] irqtime: Remove needless IRQs disablement on kcpustat update

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Date:   Fri, 2 Sep 2016 18:30:40 +0200
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:     Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
Cc:     Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@...mail.com>,
        Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>,
        Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] irqtime: Remove needless IRQs disablement on
 kcpustat update

On Fri, Sep 02, 2016 at 04:53:47PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> 
> 
> On 02/09/2016 16:03, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> > The callers of the functions performing irqtime kcpustat updates have
> > IRQS disabled, no need to disable them again.
> 
> They do, but perhaps this should be annotated through some sparse magic.
>  It's starting to be hairy, with the requirement spanning many separate
> files.

Sparse sucks for those things...

maybe just add something like lockdep_assert_irqsoff(). Such a call both
documents the requirement and validates at runtime when CONFIG_LOCKDEP.