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SubjectRe: [PATCH RFC] tracepoint: Introduce tracepoint callbacks executing with preempt on
On Fri, 27 Apr 2018 10:26:29 -0400 (EDT)
Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> wrote:

> The general approach and the implementation look fine, except for
> one small detail: I would be tempted to explicitly disable preemption
> around the call to the tracepoint callback for the rcuidle variant,
> unless we plan to audit every tracer right away to remove any assumption
> that preemption is disabled in the callback implementation.

I'm thinking that we do that audit. There shouldn't be many instances
of it. I like the idea that a tracepoint callback gets called with
preemption enabled.

-- Steve

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