Re: [PATCH v9 4/7] tracepoint: Make rcuidle tracepoint callers use SRCU

From: Joel Fernandes
Date: Thu Jul 12 2018 - 16:29:36 EST


On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 1:15 PM, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Jul 2018 12:17:01 -0700
>> So then, we should use the regular variant for this additional check you're
>> suggesting.
>
> OK, I thought we had a rcu_dereference_notrace() that did checks and
> thought that this followed suit, but it appears there is no such call.
> That's where my confusion was.
>
> Sure, I'll nuke the notrace() portion, thanks.
>
> Also, I've applied 1-3, since 4 and 5 looks to be getting a remake, I'm
> going to remove them from my queue. Please fold the SPDX patch into 5.

Will do, and send out the 4 and 5 shortly with the SPDK folded.

Also the kselftest patches were acked and can be taken independently,
I had reposted them as a separate 2 patch series with some minor
changes based on your suggestions. Could you check them?

thanks!

- Joel