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SubjectRe: [PATCH RFC tip/core/rcu 11/15] tracepoint: Remove smp_read_barrier_depends() from comment
----- On Oct 9, 2017, at 8:31 PM, rostedt rostedt@goodmis.org wrote:

> [ added Mathieu ]
>
> On Mon, 9 Oct 2017 17:22:45 -0700
> "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>
>> The comment in tracepoint_add_func() mentions smp_read_barrier_depends(),
>> whose use should be quite restricted. This commit updates the comment
>> to instead mention the smp_store_release() and rcu_dereference_sched()
>> that the current code actually uses.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
>> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
>
> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
>

Yeah I think we don't need to spell out the implementation of
rcu_dereference_sched() there (which actually uses lockless_dereference(),
which indeed ends up relying on smp_read_barrier_depends()). The comment
was a bit too low-level for the benefit of its audience.

I agree with the change.

Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>

Thanks,

Mathieu

> -- Steve
>
>> ---
>> kernel/tracepoint.c | 9 ++++-----
>> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/kernel/tracepoint.c b/kernel/tracepoint.c
>> index 685c50ae6300..671b13457387 100644
>> --- a/kernel/tracepoint.c
>> +++ b/kernel/tracepoint.c
>> @@ -212,11 +212,10 @@ static int tracepoint_add_func(struct tracepoint *tp,
>> }
>>
>> /*
>> - * rcu_assign_pointer has a smp_wmb() which makes sure that the new
>> - * probe callbacks array is consistent before setting a pointer to it.
>> - * This array is referenced by __DO_TRACE from
>> - * include/linux/tracepoints.h. A matching smp_read_barrier_depends()
>> - * is used.
>> + * rcu_assign_pointer has as smp_store_release() which makes sure
>> + * that the new probe callbacks array is consistent before setting
>> + * a pointer to it. This array is referenced by __DO_TRACE from
>> + * include/linux/tracepoint.h using rcu_dereference_sched().
>> */
>> rcu_assign_pointer(tp->funcs, tp_funcs);
> > if (!static_key_enabled(&tp->key))

--
Mathieu Desnoyers
EfficiOS Inc.
http://www.efficios.com

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