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SubjectRe: [PATCH v9 5/7] tracing: Centralize preemptirq tracepoints and unify their usage
On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 09:19:44AM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > > protection to prevent something like the following case: a spin_lock is
> > > taken. Then lockdep_acquired is called. That does a raw_local_irq_save
> > > and then sets lockdep_recursion, and then calls __lockdep_acquired. In
> > > this function, a call to get_lock_stats happens which calls
> > > preempt_disable, which calls trace IRQS off somewhere which enters my
> > > tracepoint code and sets the tracing_irq_cpu flag to prevent recursion.
> > > This flag is then never cleared causing lockdep paths to never be
> > > entered and thus causing splats and other bad things.
> >
> > Would it not be much easier to avoid that entirely, afaict all
> > get/put_lock_stats() callers already have IRQs disabled, so that
> > (traced) preempt fiddling is entirely superfluous.
>
> Agreed. Looks like a good clean up.

So actually with or without the clean up, I don't see any issues with
dropping lockdep_recursing in my tests at the moment. I'm not sure something
else changed between then and now causing the issue to go away. I can include
Peter's clean up in my series though if he's Ok with it since you guys agree
its a good clean up anyway. Would you prefer I did that, and then also
dropped the lockdep_recursing checks? Or should I keep the
lockdep_recursing() checks just to be safe? Do you see cases where you want
irqsoff tracing while lockdep_recursing() is true?

thanks,

- Joel

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