Re: [PATCH v10 2/3] tracepoint: Make rcuidle tracepoint callers use SRCU

[Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org>]

On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 08:25:28PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 02:55:46PM -0700, Joel Fernandes wrote:
> > +		/* keep srcu and sched-rcu usage consistent */		\
> > +		preempt_disable_notrace();				\
> > +									\
> > +		/*							\
> > +		 * For rcuidle callers, use srcu since sched-rcu	\
> > +		 * doesn't work from the idle path.			\
> > +		 */							\
> > +		if (rcuidle)						\
> > +			idx = srcu_read_lock_notrace(&tracepoint_srcu);	\
> > +		else							\
> > +			rcu_read_lock_sched_notrace();			\
> 
> That else is completely superfluous. rcu_read_lock_sched_notrace() :=
> prempt_disable_notrace().

I have a patch as below on top of this series. Thanks for the suggestion.

Steve, Peter,

Is it Ok with you to take the below patch ontop of this series? I avoided
resending the 3-patch series since this is the only change, but let me know
what you prefer or makes it easy for you.

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From: Joel Fernandes <joelaf@google.com>
Subject: [PATCH] tracepoint: Remove extra unneeded rcu_read_lock_sched_notrace

A great idea was provided that rcu_read_lock_sched_notrace being the
equivalent of preempt_disable_notrace is unnecessary to call in
tracepoint code, since we already call preempt_disable_notrace in
advance. So lets remove the extra call.

Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes <joelaf@google.com>
---
 include/linux/tracepoint.h | 4 ----
 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/tracepoint.h b/include/linux/tracepoint.h
index 97e1d365a817..6e7bc6ebfcd8 100644
--- a/include/linux/tracepoint.h
+++ b/include/linux/tracepoint.h
@@ -161,8 +161,6 @@ extern void syscall_unregfunc(void);
 		 */							\
 		if (rcuidle)						\
 			idx = srcu_read_lock_notrace(&tracepoint_srcu);	\
-		else							\
-			rcu_read_lock_sched_notrace();			\
 									\
 		it_func_ptr = rcu_dereference_raw((tp)->funcs);		\
 									\
@@ -176,8 +174,6 @@ extern void syscall_unregfunc(void);
 									\
 		if (rcuidle)						\
 			srcu_read_unlock_notrace(&tracepoint_srcu, idx);\
-		else							\
-			rcu_read_unlock_sched_notrace();		\
 									\
 		preempt_enable_notrace();				\
 	} while (0)
-- 
2.18.0.203.gfac676dfb9-goog