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Steven Rostedt (Google) c235816fab tracing: Make tracepoint lockdep check actually test something 
commit c2679254b9 upstream.

A while ago where the trace events had the following:

   rcu_read_lock_sched_notrace();
   rcu_dereference_sched(...);
   rcu_read_unlock_sched_notrace();

If the tracepoint is enabled, it could trigger RCU issues if called in
the wrong place. And this warning was only triggered if lockdep was
enabled. If the tracepoint was never enabled with lockdep, the bug would
not be caught. To handle this, the above sequence was done when lockdep
was enabled regardless if the tracepoint was enabled or not (although the
always enabled code really didn't do anything, it would still trigger a
warning).

But a lot has changed since that lockdep code was added. One is, that
sequence no longer triggers any warning. Another is, the tracepoint when
enabled doesn't even do that sequence anymore.

The main check we care about today is whether RCU is "watching" or not.
So if lockdep is enabled, always check if rcu_is_watching() which will
trigger a warning if it is not (tracepoints require RCU to be watching).

Note, that old sequence did add a bit of overhead when lockdep was enabled,
and with the latest kernel updates, would cause the system to slow down
enough to trigger kernel "stalled" warnings.

Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20140806181801.GA4605@redhat.com
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20140807175204.C257CAC5@viggo.jf.intel.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230307184645.521db5c9@gandalf.local.home/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20230310172856.77406446@gandalf.local.home

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Fixes: e6753f23d9 ("tracepoint: Make rcuidle tracepoint callers use SRCU")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
History 2023-03-22 13:38:01 +01:00
arch s390/ipl: add missing intersection check to ipl_report handling 2023-03-22 13:37:59 +01:00
block block: count 'ios' and 'sectors' when io is done for bio-based device 2023-03-22 13:37:50 +01:00
certs certs: Fix build error when PKCS#11 URI contains semicolon 2023-01-31 17:53:01 +09:00
crypto crypto: rsa-pkcs1pad - Use akcipher_request_complete 2023-03-10 09:28:18 +01:00
Documentation docs: Correct missing "d_" prefix for dentry_operations member d_weak_revalidate 2023-03-22 13:37:42 +01:00
drivers md: select BLOCK_LEGACY_AUTOLOAD 2023-03-22 13:38:00 +01:00
fs cifs: generate signkey for the channel that's reconnecting 2023-03-22 13:38:00 +01:00
include tracing: Make tracepoint lockdep check actually test something 2023-03-22 13:38:01 +01:00
init Kbuild fixes for v6.2 (3rd) 2023-01-21 10:56:37 -08:00
io_uring io_uring/uring_cmd: ensure that device supports IOPOLL 2023-03-17 08:57:45 +01:00
ipc Non-MM patches for 6.2-rc1. 2022-12-12 17:28:58 -08:00
kernel tracing: Check field value in hist_field_name() 2023-03-22 13:38:01 +01:00
lib cpuidle: lib/bug: Disable rcu_is_watching() during WARN/BUG 2023-03-10 09:29:06 +01:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Add the copyleft-next-0.3.1 license 2022-11-08 15:44:01 +01:00
mm memory tier: release the new_memtier in find_create_memory_tier() 2023-03-10 09:29:50 +01:00
net net/9p: fix bug in client create for .L 2023-03-22 13:37:56 +01:00
rust rust: print: avoid evaluating arguments in pr_* macros in unsafe blocks 2023-01-16 00:54:35 +01:00
samples ftrace: Export ftrace_free_filter() to modules 2023-01-24 11:20:58 -05:00
scripts kconfig: Update config changed flag before calling callback 2023-03-22 13:37:55 +01:00
security ima: Align ima_file_mmap() parameters with mmap_file LSM hook 2023-03-10 09:29:36 +01:00
sound ALSA: hda: Match only Intel devices with CONTROLLER_IN_GPU() 2023-03-22 13:37:44 +01:00
tools selftests: net: devlink_port_split.py: skip test if no suitable device available 2023-03-22 13:37:53 +01:00
usr usr/gen_init_cpio.c: remove unnecessary -1 values from int file 2022-10-03 14:21:44 -07:00
virt KVM: Register /dev/kvm as the _very_ last thing during initialization 2023-03-10 09:29:33 +01:00
.clang-format iommufd for 6.2 2022-12-14 09:15:43 -08:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore get_maintainer: add Alan to .get_maintainer.ignore 2022-08-20 15:17:44 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: use 'dts' diff driver for dts files 2019-12-04 19:44:11 -08:00
.gitignore .gitignore: ignore *.rpm 2022-12-30 17:22:14 +09:00
.mailmap 12 hotfixes, mostly against mm/. Five of these fixes are cc:stable. 2023-02-13 14:09:20 -08:00
.rustfmt.toml rust: add .rustfmt.toml 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: update SCTP maintainers 2023-02-02 11:35:33 -08:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v6.1 2022-10-10 12:00:45 -07:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS audit: update the mailing list in MAINTAINERS 2023-02-25 11:13:29 +01:00
Makefile Linux 6.2.7 2023-03-17 08:58:04 +01:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.