linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] tracing: Have all levels of checks prevent recursion

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Date:   Fri, 15 Oct 2021 13:35:04 -0400
From:   Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] tracing: Have all levels of checks prevent recursion

On Fri, 15 Oct 2021 18:17:02 +0200
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 15, 2021 at 11:00:35AM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > From: "Steven Rostedt (VMware)" <rostedt@...dmis.org>
> > 
> > While writing an email explaining the "bit = 0" logic for a discussion on  
> 
> >  	bit = trace_get_context_bit() + start;  
> 
> While there, you were also going to update that function to match/use
> get_recursion_context(). Because your version is still branch hell.

That would probably be a separate patch. This is just a fix to a design
flaw, changing the context tests would be performance enhancement.

Thanks for the reminder (as it was on my todo list to update that code).

-- Steve