Re: [PATCH v8 01/10] tracing: Add support for SOFT_DISABLE tosyscall events

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Fri Sep 06 2013 - 08:41:12 EST


On Fri, 06 Sep 2013 21:22:15 +0900
Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
> And AFAICS, the tracepoint (on which the syscall tracer based)
> call-site uses rcu_read_lock_sched_notrace() instead of rcu_read_lock(),
> in that case, I think we should use synchronize_sched(). is that wrong?
>

Ah, no, you are correct. I was thinking that the tracepoints used
rcu_read_lock(), but looking at the code, it's rcu_read_lock_sched().
Thus a synchronize_sched() *is* required.

Thanks, and please ignore my other comments about using
"synchronize_rcu()".

-- Steve

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