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Date:	Fri, 8 Aug 2014 18:27:14 +0200
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc:	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	mingo@...nel.org, laijs@...fujitsu.com, dipankar@...ibm.com,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com,
	josh@...htriplett.org, tglx@...utronix.de, dhowells@...hat.com,
	edumazet@...gle.com, dvhart@...ux.intel.com, fweisbec@...il.com,
	bobby.prani@...il.com, masami.hiramatsu.pt@...achi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 tip/core/rcu 3/9] rcu: Add synchronous grace-period
 waiting for RCU-tasks

On Fri, Aug 08, 2014 at 10:58:58AM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:

> > > No, they are also used by optimized kprobes. This is why optimized
> > > kprobes depend on !CONFIG_PREEMPT. [ added Masami to the discussion ].
> > 
> > How do those work? Is that one where the INT3 relocates the instruction
> > stream into an alternative 'text' and that JMPs back into the original
> > stream at the end?
> 
> No, it's where we replace the 'int3' with a jump to a trampoline that
> simulates an INT3. Speeds things up quite a bit.

OK, so the trivial 'fix' for that is to patch the probe site like:

	preempt_disable();		INC	GS:%__preempt_count
	call trampoline;		CALL	0xDEADBEEF
	preempt_enable();		DEC	GS:%__preempt_count
					JNZ	1f
					CALL	___preempt_schedule
				1f:

At which point the preempt_disable/enable() are the read side primitives
and call_rcu_sched/synchronize_sched are sufficient to release it.

With the per-cpu preempt count stuff we have on x86 that is 4
instructions for the preempt_*() stuff -- they're 'big' instructions
though, since 3 have memops and 2 have a segment prefix.



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