linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Documentation: Fill the gaps about entry/noinstr constraints

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Date:   Wed, 1 Dec 2021 18:23:49 +0000
From:   Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>
To:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:     Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Nicolas Saenz Julienne <nsaenzju@...hat.com>,
        linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-arm-kernel <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
        rcu@...r.kernel.org, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        paulmck@...nel.org, mtosatti <mtosatti@...hat.com>,
        frederic <frederic@...nel.org>, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: Fill the gaps about entry/noinstr
 constraints

On Wed, Dec 01, 2021 at 07:14:41PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> Mark,
> 
> On Wed, Dec 01 2021 at 10:56, Mark Rutland wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 30, 2021 at 11:31:30PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> >> ---
> >>  Documentation/core-api/entry.rst |  268 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >>  Documentation/core-api/index.rst |    8 +
> >>  kernel/entry/common.c            |    1 
> >
> > I think the change to kernel/entry/common.c got included by accident?
> 
> That's what I get from doing such things 30 minutes before midnight...

Ah, I had debugged it down to:

nobikeshed void do_rst(struct tglx *tglx);
{
	aargh_rst_enter(tglx);

	documentation_begin();
	invoke_editor(tglx);
 	documentation_end();
}

... where I think we forgot the:

	enter_from_sleep_mode(tglx);
	...
	exit_to_sleep_mode(tglx);

Mark.