Re: [patch V6 03/37] nmi, tracing: Provide nmi_enter/exit_notrace()

From: Andy Lutomirski
Date: Sun May 17 2020 - 01:25:01 EST


On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 5:10 PM Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> To fully isolate #DB and #BP from instrumentable code it's necessary to
> avoid invoking the hardware latency tracer on nmi_enter/exit().
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> Provide nmi_enter/exit() variants which are not invoking the hardware
> latency tracer. That allows to put calls explicitely into the call sites
> outside of the kprobe handling.


Acked-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx>