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

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Message-ID: <20180712023237.GA122777@joelaf.mtv.corp.google.com>
Date:   Wed, 11 Jul 2018 19:32:37 -0700
From:   Joel Fernandes <joel@...lfernandes.org>
To:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.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 Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 02:53:22PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 11:21:46AM -0700, Joel Fernandes wrote:
> > -		rcu_read_lock_sched_notrace();				\
> > -		it_func_ptr = rcu_dereference_sched((tp)->funcs);	\
> > +									\
> > +		/*							\
> > +		 * For rcuidle callers, use srcu since sched-rcu	\
> > +		 * doesn't work from the idle path.			\
> > +		 */							\
> > +		if (rcuidle) {						\
> > +			if (in_nmi()) {					\
> > +				WARN_ON_ONCE(1);			\
> > +				return; /* no srcu from nmi */		\
> > +			}						\
> > +									\
> > +			idx = srcu_read_lock_notrace(&tracepoint_srcu);	\
> > +			it_func_ptr =					\
> > +				srcu_dereference_notrace((tp)->funcs,	\
> > +						&tracepoint_srcu);	\
> > +			/* To keep it consistent with !rcuidle path */	\
> > +			preempt_disable_notrace();			\
> > +		} else {						\
> > +			rcu_read_lock_sched_notrace();			\
> > +			it_func_ptr =					\
> > +				rcu_dereference_sched((tp)->funcs);	\
> > +		}							\
> > +									\
> >  		if (it_func_ptr) {					\
> >  			do {						\
> >  				it_func = (it_func_ptr)->func;		\
> > @@ -148,9 +177,13 @@ extern void syscall_unregfunc(void);
> >  				((void(*)(proto))(it_func))(args);	\
> >  			} while ((++it_func_ptr)->func);		\
> >  		}							\
> > -		rcu_read_unlock_sched_notrace();			\
> > -		if (rcucheck)						\
> > -			rcu_irq_exit_irqson();				\
> > +									\
> > +		if (rcuidle) {						\
> > +			preempt_enable_notrace();			\
> > +			srcu_read_unlock_notrace(&tracepoint_srcu, idx);\
> > +		} else {						\
> > +			rcu_read_unlock_sched_notrace();		\
> > +		}							\
> >  	} while (0)
> 
> In fact, I would write the thing like:
> 
> 		preempt_disable_notrace();
> 		if (rcuidle)
> 			idx = srcu_read_lock_notrace(&tracepoint_srcu);
> 
> 		it_func_ptr = rcu_dereference_raw((tp)->funcs);
> 
> 		/* ... */
> 
> 		if (rcu_idle)
> 			srcu_read_unlock_notrace(&tracepoint_srcu, idx);
> 		preempt_enable_notrace();
> 
> Much simpler and very much the same.

Cool, thanks! I will do it this way and resend.

- Joel