linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v12 3/3] tracing: Centralize preemptirq tracepoints and unify their usage

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Message-ID: <20180807103410.4fe203cb@gandalf.local.home>
Date:   Tue, 7 Aug 2018 10:34:10 -0400
From:   Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:     Joel Fernandes <joelaf@...gle.com>
Cc:     Joel Fernandes <joel@...lfernandes.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "Cc: Android Kernel" <kernel-team@...roid.com>,
        Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@...il.com>,
        Byungchul Park <byungchul.park@....com>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>,
        Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>,
        Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>,
        Paul McKenney <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Thomas Glexiner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v12 3/3] tracing: Centralize preemptirq tracepoints and
 unify their usage

On Tue, 07 Aug 2018 10:10:59 -0400
Joel Fernandes <joelaf@...gle.com> wrote:

> On August 7, 2018 9:49:54 AM EDT, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org> wrote:
> >On Tue, 7 Aug 2018 06:33:35 -0700
> >Joel Fernandes <joelaf@...gle.com> wrote:
> >  
> >> Thanks, also one more thing I noticed in your patch,
> >> lockdep_hardirqs_off needs to be called before all other probes but
> >> you're calling it after. This is why I registered it with INT_MAX:
> >> 
> >> register_trace_prio_irq_disable(lockdep_hardirqs_off, NULL, INT_MAX);
> >> 
> >> Without it you may get annotation warnings. Thanks,  
> >
> >Interesting. I was following the old way where we called the tracing
> >code before calling the lockdep code (all hard coded and not from
> >trace events). Is this have something to do with calling the code from
> >a tracepoint?
> >
> >Do you have an example that could trigger the warning?
> >  
> 
> I remember the warnings but can't remember now how I triggered them.
> I think I saw them with the irqsoff tracer or irq trace events
> running, with lockdep turned on.

I'll see if I can trigger it. I'll run this all through my tests.

> 
> Also an irq disable probe that does a lockdep assert that irqs are
> disabled could trigger it?
> 

You mean if someone add a tracepoint callback to the irq disable
tracepoint, and did a lockdep assert to make sure interrupts are
disabled?

-- Steve