linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/4] ring-buffer: change WARN_ON from checking preempt

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.0905080653110.28378@gandalf.stny.rr.com>
Date:	Fri, 8 May 2009 06:53:48 -0400 (EDT)
From:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] ring-buffer: change WARN_ON from checking preempt_count
 to preemptible



On Thu, 7 May 2009, Andrew Morton wrote:

> On Fri, 08 May 2009 00:32:54 -0400 Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org> wrote:
> 
> > From: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@...hat.com>
> > 
> > There's a WARN_ON in the ring buffer code that makes sure preemption
> > is disabled. It checks "!preempt_count()". But when CONFIG_PREEMPT is not
> > enabled, preempt_count() is always zero, and this will trigger the warning.
> > 
> > [ Impact: prevent false warning on non preemptible kernels ]
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
> > ---
> >  kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c |    2 +-
> >  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
> > index 3ae5ccf..3611706 100644
> > --- a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
> > +++ b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
> > @@ -1688,7 +1688,7 @@ void ring_buffer_discard_commit(struct ring_buffer *buffer,
> >  	 * committed yet. Thus we can assume that preemption
> >  	 * is still disabled.
> >  	 */
> > -	RB_WARN_ON(buffer, !preempt_count());
> > +	RB_WARN_ON(buffer, preemptible());
> >  
> >  	cpu = smp_processor_id();
> >  	cpu_buffer = buffer->buffers[cpu];
> 
> smp_processor_id() will warn too.
> 

The difference is that RB_WARN_ON also disables the ring buffer.

-- Steve

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