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Message-ID: <522b01cf-0cb6-4766-9102-2d08a3983d8a@paulmck-laptop>
Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2025 09:01:30 -0800
From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc: rcu@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-team@...a.com,
	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>,
	Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>,
	bpf@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 10/16] tracing: Guard __DECLARE_TRACE() use of
 __DO_TRACE_CALL() with SRCU-fast

On Thu, Nov 06, 2025 at 11:02:30AM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Wed,  5 Nov 2025 12:32:10 -0800
> "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org> wrote:
> > 
> > The current commit can be thought of as an approximate revert of that
> > commit, with some compensating additions of preemption disabling pointed
> > out by Steven Rostedt (thank you, Steven!).  This preemption disabling
> 
> > uses guard(preempt_notrace)(), and while in the area a couple of other
> > use cases were also converted to guards.
> 
> Actually, please don't do any conversions. That code is unrelated to
> this work and I may be touching it. I don't need unneeded conflicts.

OK, thank you for letting me know.  Should I set up for the merge window
after this coming one (of course applying your feedback below), or will
you be making this safe for PREEMPT_RT as part of your work?

If I don't hear otherwise, I will assume the former, though I would be
quite happy with the latter.  ;-).

							Thanx, Paul

> > ---
> >  include/linux/tracepoint.h   | 45 ++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
> >  include/trace/perf.h         |  4 ++--
> >  include/trace/trace_events.h |  4 ++--
> >  kernel/tracepoint.c          | 21 ++++++++++++++++-
> >  4 files changed, 52 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/include/linux/tracepoint.h b/include/linux/tracepoint.h
> > index 826ce3f8e1f8..9f8b19cd303a 100644
> > --- a/include/linux/tracepoint.h
> > +++ b/include/linux/tracepoint.h
> > @@ -33,6 +33,8 @@ struct trace_eval_map {
> >  
> >  #define TRACEPOINT_DEFAULT_PRIO	10
> >  
> > +extern struct srcu_struct tracepoint_srcu;
> > +
> >  extern int
> >  tracepoint_probe_register(struct tracepoint *tp, void *probe, void *data);
> >  extern int
> > @@ -115,7 +117,10 @@ void for_each_tracepoint_in_module(struct module *mod,
> >  static inline void tracepoint_synchronize_unregister(void)
> >  {
> >  	synchronize_rcu_tasks_trace();
> > -	synchronize_rcu();
> > +	if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT))
> > +		synchronize_srcu(&tracepoint_srcu);
> > +	else
> > +		synchronize_rcu();
> >  }
> 
> Instead of using the IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT) I think it would be
> somewhat cleaner to add macros (all of this is untested):
> 
> #ifdef CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT
> extern struct srcu_struct tracepoint_srcu;
> # define tracepoint_sync() synchronizes_srcu(&tracepoint_srcu)
> # define tracepoint_guard() \
>      guard(srcu_fast_notrace)(&tracepoint_srcu); \
>      guard(migrate)()
> #else
> # define tracepoint_sync() synchronize_rcu();
> # define tracepoint_guard() guard(preempt_notrace)
> #endif
> 
> And then the above can be:
> 
> static inline void tracepoint_synchronize_unregister(void)
> {
>  	synchronize_rcu_tasks_trace();
> 	tracepoint_sync();
> }
> 
> and the below:
> 
> 	static inline void __do_trace_##name(proto)			\
> 	{								\
> 		if (cond) {						\
> 			tracepoint_guard();				\
> 			__DO_TRACE_CALL(name, TP_ARGS(args));		\
> 		}							\
> 	}								\
> 
> And not have to duplicate all that code.
> 
> >  static inline bool tracepoint_is_faultable(struct tracepoint *tp)
> >  {
> > @@ -266,23 +271,29 @@ static inline struct tracepoint *tracepoint_ptr_deref(tracepoint_ptr_t *p)
> >  		return static_branch_unlikely(&__tracepoint_##name.key);\
> >  	}
> >  
> > -#define __DECLARE_TRACE(name, proto, args, cond, data_proto)		\
> > +#define __DECLARE_TRACE(name, proto, args, cond, data_proto)			\
> >  	__DECLARE_TRACE_COMMON(name, PARAMS(proto), PARAMS(args), PARAMS(data_proto)) \
> > -	static inline void __do_trace_##name(proto)			\
> > -	{								\
> > -		if (cond) {						\
> > -			guard(preempt_notrace)();			\
> > -			__DO_TRACE_CALL(name, TP_ARGS(args));		\
> > -		}							\
> > -	}								\
> > -	static inline void trace_##name(proto)				\
> > -	{								\
> > -		if (static_branch_unlikely(&__tracepoint_##name.key))	\
> > -			__do_trace_##name(args);			\
> > -		if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_LOCKDEP) && (cond)) {		\
> > -			WARN_ONCE(!rcu_is_watching(),			\
> > -				  "RCU not watching for tracepoint");	\
> > -		}							\
> > +	static inline void __do_trace_##name(proto)				\
> > +	{									\
> > +		if (cond) {							\
> > +			if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT) && preemptible()) {	\
> > +				guard(srcu_fast_notrace)(&tracepoint_srcu);	\
> > +				guard(migrate)();				\
> > +				__DO_TRACE_CALL(name, TP_ARGS(args));		\
> > +			} else {						\
> > +				guard(preempt_notrace)();			\
> > +				__DO_TRACE_CALL(name, TP_ARGS(args));		\
> > +			}							\
> > +		}								\
> > +	}									\
> > +	static inline void trace_##name(proto)					\
> > +	{									\
> > +		if (static_branch_unlikely(&__tracepoint_##name.key))		\
> > +			__do_trace_##name(args);				\
> > +		if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_LOCKDEP) && (cond)) {			\
> > +			WARN_ONCE(!rcu_is_watching(),				\
> > +				  "RCU not watching for tracepoint");		\
> > +		}								\
> >  	
> >  
> 
> >  /*
> > diff --git a/include/trace/trace_events.h b/include/trace/trace_events.h
> > index 4f22136fd465..fbc07d353be6 100644
> > --- a/include/trace/trace_events.h
> > +++ b/include/trace/trace_events.h
> > @@ -436,6 +436,7 @@ __DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS(call, PARAMS(proto), PARAMS(args), PARAMS(tstruct), \
> >  static notrace void							\
> >  trace_event_raw_event_##call(void *__data, proto)			\
> >  {									\
> > +	guard(preempt_notrace)();					\
> 
> Note, the tracepoint code expects that there's only one level of
> preemption done, as it records the preempt_count and needs to subtract
> what tracing added. Just calling preempt_notrace here if it had already
> disabled preemption will break that code.
> 
> It should only disable preemption if it hasn't already done that (when
> PREEMPT_RT is enabled).
> 
> >  	do_trace_event_raw_event_##call(__data, args);			\
> >  }
> >  
> > @@ -447,9 +448,8 @@ static notrace void							\
> >  trace_event_raw_event_##call(void *__data, proto)			\
> >  {									\
> >  	might_fault();							\
> > -	preempt_disable_notrace();					\
> > +	guard(preempt_notrace)();					\
> >  	do_trace_event_raw_event_##call(__data, args);			\
> > -	preempt_enable_notrace();					\
> 
> I may be modifying the above, so I would leave it alone.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -- Steve
> 

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