Re: [PATCH RFC 0/5] Remove some notrace RCU APIs

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Fri May 24 2019 - 23:28:07 EST


On Fri, 24 May 2019 19:49:28 -0400
"Joel Fernandes (Google)" <joel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The series removes users of the following APIs, and the APIs themselves, since
> the regular non - _notrace variants don't do any tracing anyway.
> * hlist_for_each_entry_rcu_notrace
> * rcu_dereference_raw_notrace
>

I guess the difference between the _raw_notrace and just _raw variants
is that _notrace ones do a rcu_check_sparse(). Don't we want to keep
that check?

-- Steve