Re: BUG: ib_mad ftrace event unsupported migration

[Jason Gunthorpe]

On Wed, Nov 02, 2022 at 11:59:47AM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Nov 2022 11:24:20 -0300
> Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > No, it doesn't muck with preemption, it will have some sleeping lock,
> > eg mlx5_ib_query_pkey() does a memory allocation as the first thing
> > 
> > It seems like a bug that calling kmalloc(GFP_KERNEL)/might_sleep()
> > from within a tracepoint doesn't trigger a warning?
> 
> Has nothing to do with tracepoints. You could call it a bug that it
> doesn't trigger a warning when preemption is disabled. But then again,
> it would if you enabled DEBUG_PREEMPT and possibly LOCKDEP too. So, I chalk
> this up to a lack of proper testing.

That makes sense, assuming it does trigger in those cases.

It is interesting nobody has run those tracepoints on a debug kernel.

Jason