linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v9 4/7] tracepoint: Make rcuidle tracepoint callers use SRCU

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Message-ID: <20180711125647.GG2476@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net>
Date:   Wed, 11 Jul 2018 14:56:47 +0200
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:     Joel Fernandes <joel@...lfernandes.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@...il.com>,
        Byungchul Park <byungchul.park@....com>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Julia Cartwright <julia@...com>,
        linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org,
        Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>,
        Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>,
        Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>,
        Paul McKenney <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Thomas Glexiner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 4/7] tracepoint: Make rcuidle tracepoint callers use
 SRCU

On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 11:21:46AM -0700, Joel Fernandes wrote:
>  static inline void tracepoint_synchronize_unregister(void)
>  {
> +	synchronize_srcu(&tracepoint_srcu);
>  	synchronize_sched();
>  }

Given you below do call_rcu_sched() and then call_srcu(), isn't the
above the wrong way around?

Also, does the above want to be barrier instead of synchronize, so as to
guarantee completion of the callbacks.

> +static void srcu_free_old_probes(struct rcu_head *head)
>  {
>  	kfree(container_of(head, struct tp_probes, rcu));
>  }
>  
> +static void rcu_free_old_probes(struct rcu_head *head)
> +{
> +	call_srcu(&tracepoint_srcu, head, srcu_free_old_probes);
> +}
> +
>  static inline void release_probes(struct tracepoint_func *old)
>  {
>  	if (old) {
>  		struct tp_probes *tp_probes = container_of(old,
>  			struct tp_probes, probes[0]);
> +		/*
> +		 * Tracepoint probes are protected by both sched RCU and SRCU,
> +		 * by calling the SRCU callback in the sched RCU callback we
> +		 * cover both cases. So let us chain the SRCU and sched RCU
> +		 * callbacks to wait for both grace periods.
> +		 */
>  		call_rcu_sched(&tp_probes->rcu, rcu_free_old_probes);
>  	}
>  }