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

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Message-ID: <20230721122632.56b4df6c@gandalf.local.home>
Date:   Fri, 21 Jul 2023 12:26:32 -0400
From:   Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:     Alexander Lobakin <aleksander.lobakin@...el.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] tracing: Have all levels of checks prevent recursion

On Fri, 21 Jul 2023 18:06:07 +0200
Alexander Lobakin <aleksander.lobakin@...el.com> wrote:

> > Just because you disable interrupts does not mean you are in interrupt
> > context.  
> 
> Ah okay, thanks! IOW, if we want to check in some code that we're
> certainly have interrupts enabled and are not in the interrupt context,
> we must always do
> 
> if (!(in_hardirq() || irqs_disabled()))
> 

Yeah, probably.

> , nothing more elegant / already existing / ...?

It's not a common check. What would you call that?

	irq_safe() ?

-- Steve