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

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Date:   Wed, 11 Jul 2018 11:26:59 -0400
From:   Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:     Joel Fernandes <joel@...lfernandes.org>,
        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>,
        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 Wed, 11 Jul 2018 17:17:51 +0200
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org> wrote:

> I just read the comment that goes with that function; the order doesn't
> matter. All we want to ensure is that the unregistration is visible to
> either sched or srcu tracepoint users.

Yeah, but I think it is still good to change the order. It doesn't
hurt, and in my opinion makes the code a bit more robust.

-- Steve