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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>
Cc: mingo@elte.hu, rostedt@goodmis.org, tglx@linutronix.de,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-rt-users@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RT 2/2] ftrace: fix elevated preempt_count in wakeup-tracer
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 15:12:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1219151556.10800.383.camel@twins> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080819091923.21725.41087.stgit@dev.haskins.net>

On Tue, 2008-08-19 at 05:19 -0400, Gregory Haskins wrote:
> Suggested by Steve Rostedt to fix an observed "+1" in the preempt-count
> 
> Signed-off-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>
> ---
> 
>  kernel/trace/trace_sched_wakeup.c |    2 ++
>  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_sched_wakeup.c b/kernel/trace/trace_sched_wakeup.c
> index c3a15bd..ae523fd 100644
> --- a/kernel/trace/trace_sched_wakeup.c
> +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_sched_wakeup.c
> @@ -70,7 +70,9 @@ wakeup_tracer_call(unsigned long ip, unsigned long parent_ip)
>  	if (task_cpu(wakeup_task) != cpu)
>  		goto unlock;
>  
> +	preempt_enable_no_resched_notrace();
>  	trace_function(tr, data, ip, parent_ip, flags);
> +	preempt_disable_notrace();

Is preempt_count > 1 at all times here?

If not, it might drop to 0 and any interrupt might cause preemption -
and its not obvious to me that that is actually correct.

Just asking, as neither the changelog nor the code fragment enlightens
me on the subject.


  reply	other threads:[~2008-08-19 13:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-19  9:19 [PATCH RT 0/2] Misc fixes for 2.6.26-rt1 Gregory Haskins
2008-08-19  9:19 ` [PATCH RT 1/2] seqlock: make sure that raw_seqlock_t retries readers while writes are pending Gregory Haskins
2008-08-19  9:19 ` [PATCH RT 2/2] ftrace: fix elevated preempt_count in wakeup-tracer Gregory Haskins
2008-08-19 13:12   ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2008-08-19 13:21     ` Gregory Haskins
2008-08-19 13:45       ` Steven Rostedt
2008-08-19 14:07         ` Peter Zijlstra

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