linux-kernel - Re: [for-next][PATCH 26/26] tracing: trigger: Replace unneeded RCU-list traversals

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Date:   Tue, 14 Jan 2020 17:11:31 -0500
From:   Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Tom Zanussi <zanussi@...nel.org>,
        Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [for-next][PATCH 26/26] tracing: trigger: Replace unneeded
 RCU-list traversals

On Tue, 14 Jan 2020 16:03:42 -0500
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org> wrote:

> From: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>
> 
> With CONFIG_PROVE_RCU_LIST, I had many suspicious RCU warnings
> when I ran ftracetest trigger testcases.
> 
> -----
>   # dmesg -c > /dev/null
>   # ./ftracetest test.d/trigger
>   ...
>   # dmesg | grep "RCU-list traversed" | cut -f 2 -d ] | cut -f 2 -d " "
>   kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c:6070
>   kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c:1760
>   kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c:5911
>   kernel/trace/trace_events_trigger.c:504
>   kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c:1810
>   kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c:3158
>   kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c:3105
>   kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c:5518
>   kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c:5998
>   kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c:6019
>   kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c:6044
>   kernel/trace/trace_events_trigger.c:1500
>   kernel/trace/trace_events_trigger.c:1540
>   kernel/trace/trace_events_trigger.c:539
>   kernel/trace/trace_events_trigger.c:584
> -----
> 
> I investigated those warnings and found that the RCU-list
> traversals in event trigger and hist didn't need to use
> RCU version because those were called only under event_mutex.
> 
> I also checked other RCU-list traversals related to event
> trigger list, and found that most of them were called from
> event_hist_trigger_func() or hist_unregister_trigger() or
> register/unregister functions except for a few cases.
> 
> Replace these unneeded RCU-list traversals with normal list
> traversal macro and lockdep_assert_held() to check the
> event_mutex is held.
> 
> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/157680910305.11685.15110237954275915782.stgit@devnote2
> 
> Reviewed-by: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@...nel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@...dmis.org>
> ---
>  kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c    | 41 +++++++++++++++++++++--------
>  kernel/trace/trace_events_trigger.c | 20 ++++++++++----
>  2 files changed, 45 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
> 


I think I may add this to my urgent branch and mark this for stable.

-- Steve