Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 2 Nov 2022 11:59:47 -0400 | From | Steven Rostedt <> | Subject | Re: BUG: ib_mad ftrace event unsupported migration |
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On Wed, 2 Nov 2022 11:24:20 -0300 Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca> 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.
-- Steve
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