linux-kernel - Re: [patch V6 03/37] nmi, tracing: Provide nmi_enter/exit

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Message-ID: <CALCETrUXr3gAv5DJfoXk-1qUMT00T+2urvG3AUGJL+NGsWAn+g@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Sat, 16 May 2020 22:12:35 -0700
From:   Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
To:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, X86 ML <x86@...nel.org>,
        "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>,
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        "Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" <peterz@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [patch V6 03/37] nmi, tracing: Provide nmi_enter/exit_notrace()

On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 5:10 PM Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de> wrote:
>
>
> To fully isolate #DB and #BP from instrumentable code it's necessary to
> avoid invoking the hardware latency tracer on nmi_enter/exit().
>
> Provide nmi_enter/exit() variants which are not invoking the hardware
> latency tracer. That allows to put calls explicitely into the call sites
> outside of the kprobe handling.


Acked-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>